[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Mon May 5 18:30:30 CEST 2008
> Using the names gets fairly verbose compared to the hex escapes though:
>>>>> u"\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}"
> u'\u03b1'
>>>> u"\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA}"
> u'\u0391'
>>>> u"\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS}"
> u'\u0386'
The extreme case (in Python 2.5) is
py> u"\N{ARABIC LIGATURE UIGHUR KIRGHIZ YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE WITH ALEF
MAKSURA ISOLATED FORM}"
u'\ufbf9'
Regards,
Martin
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