[issue7649] "u'%c' % char" broken for chars in range '\x80'-'\xFF'

[Florent Xicluna]

Florent Xicluna <laxyf at yahoo.fr> added the comment:

Tested on 2.5...

~ $ python2.5
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan  4 2009, 21:59:32) 
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> u'%c' % '\x80'
u'\Uffffff80'
>>> 

On 2.7 (trunk) I get same behaviour as described on msg97334.

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nosy: +flox

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