On 07/07/2016 10:57 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
If you print:

"\xc9\x82\xbf"

you get

 "\u0242\xbf"

But if you try and evaluate that string you get:

 "\u0242\xbf"
Error: mixing Unicode and octal/hex escapes in a string is not allowed

(Probably will only happen on mac/linux with default utf-8 encoding)

I'm not sure what should happen here, but that's not a legal string in a UTF-8 locale, so it's not too surprising that things go wonky.

Duncan Murdoch

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