So is the support of Unicode in virtually every computer language because they don't support ... digits except 0..9.
Hex digits aren't 0..9.
Python 2.4 (#2, Dec 3 2004, 17:59:05) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 0xCF 207 >>> hex(123) '0x7b' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list