Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode minus sign in numeric conversions

2013-06-08 Thread R. David Murray
On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:39:59 +0100, MRAB wrote: > On 08/06/2013 23:30, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > [Diverting to python-ideas, since this isn't as clear-cut as you think.] > > > > Why exactly is that expected behavior? What's the use case? (Surely > > you don't have a keyboard that generates \u221

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode minus sign in numeric conversions

2013-06-08 Thread MRAB
On 08/06/2013 23:30, Guido van Rossum wrote: [Diverting to python-ideas, since this isn't as clear-cut as you think.] Why exactly is that expected behavior? What's the use case? (Surely you don't have a keyboard that generates \u2212 when you hit the minus key? :-) Is there a Unicode standard f

Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode minus sign in numeric conversions

2013-06-08 Thread Guido van Rossum
[Diverting to python-ideas, since this isn't as clear-cut as you think.] Why exactly is that expected behavior? What's the use case? (Surely you don't have a keyboard that generates \u2212 when you hit the minus key? :-) Is there a Unicode standard for parsing numbers? IIRC there are a variety of