Re: Am I correct in thinking that the only way to get ord() to return a value over 256 is to send the character as a Unicode string instead of a byte string?

2010-10-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Dan Muey d...@cpanel.net [2010-10-28 21:55]: For example, note the differences in output between a unicode string and a byte string regarding character 257, as a unicode string it is 257, as a byte string it is 196. That is not what’s going on. $ perl -E'say ord 1234' 49 When you

Re: Am I correct in thinking that the only way to get ord() to return a value over 256 is to send the character as a Unicode string instead of a byte string?

2010-10-29 Thread Dan Muey
On Oct 29, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Dan Muey d...@cpanel.net [2010-10-28 21:55]: For example, note the differences in output between a unicode string and a byte string regarding character 257, as a unicode string it is 257, as a byte string it is 196. That is not

Re: Am I correct in thinking that the only way to get ord() to return a value over 256 is to send the character as a Unicode string instead of a byte string?

2010-10-28 Thread Michael Ludwig
Dan Muey schrieb am 28.10.2010 um 14:54 (-0500): Am I correct in thinking that the only way to get ord() to return a value over 256 is to send the character as a Unicode string instead of a byte string? Yes. In other words, is there any character that will make ord() return over 256 when

Re: Am I correct in thinking that the only way to get ord() to return a value over 256 is to send the character as a Unicode string instead of a byte string?

2010-10-28 Thread Dan Muey
On Oct 28, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote: Dan Muey schrieb am 28.10.2010 um 14:54 (-0500): Am I correct in thinking that the only way to get ord() to return a value over 256 is to send the character as a Unicode string instead of a byte string? Yes. In other words, is there