[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes

[atsuo ishimoto]

2008/4/17 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
>  How about choosing a standard Python repertoire (based on the Unicode
>  standard, of course) of which characters get a graphic repr and which
>  ones get \u-escaped, and have a post-hook for repr which gets passed
>  the string repr proposes to print out?

Will the standard repertoire exclude Cyrillic or full-with ASCII? If
so, I (Japanese)
will disable the hook because full-with ASCII characters are not
ambiguous to me.
Russian people may not want to use the repertoire, also.

I think ambiguity will occur when we meet with unfamiliar characters.
So choosing
repertoire everybody can accept will be difficult.

For Python identifiers, it is good idea to select a repertoire for my project.
But the repertoire is best used with such tool as PyChecker. repr() is not
necessary to check the repertoire.