[Docutils-develop] Re: [Docutils-checkins] docutils/docutils/languages sv.py,NONE,1.1

[Adam C. <ad...@ch...>]

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:04:57 -0400 David Goodger
<go...@us...> wrote:

[swedish mappings]

> Thanks Adam.  But Python modules should be 7-bit clean; please convert the
> accented characters to "\uXXXX" Unicode escapes (and the strings to "u''"
> Unicode strings).  8-bit strings will work as long as the modules aren't
> transfered across platforms, but they'll fail if poorly converted.  Best to
> leave nothing to chance.

Have to say that this is the first project I've seen to require that; most
other projects assume iso-8859-1 if nothing else is specified. Anyway, I'll
fix this ASAP. 

Hmmm... I guess the below is a good method for escaping the string?

>>> "aweraäöå".decode('iso-8859-1')
u'awera\xe4\xf6\xe5'

I wonder what the difference between \xXX and \uXXXX is..?

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