[Python-Dev] Strings: '\012' -> '\n'
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik@pythonware.com
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:37:10 +0100
ping wrote:
> By the way, why do Unicode escapes appear in capitals?
>
> >>> u'\uface'
> u'\uFACE'
>
> (If someone tells me that there happens to be a picture of a face at
> that code point, i'll laugh. Is there a cow at \uBEEF?)
iirc, 0xFACE and 0xBEEF are part of the CJK and
Hangul spaces. not sure 0xFACE is assigned, but
0xBEEF glyph looks like a ribcage with four legs...
you'll find faces at 0x263A etc.
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