Antoine Pitrou added the comment: To elaborate yet a bit, I agree with the following statement in the aforementioned [illumos-devel] discussion thread:
"""In further explanation, the isalpha() and friends *should* probably return false for the value 196, or any other byte with high order bit set, in UTF-8 locales.""" http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.illumos.devel/14193/focus=14206 I'll also point out that the code examples in the POSIX spec use islower() exactly like Python does (on arbitrary integers) between 0 and 255: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/islower.html c = (unsigned char) (rand() % 256); ... if (islower(c)) keystr[len++] = c; } ... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20049> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
