[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] Unicode minus sign in numeric conversions

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Jun 12 06:04:27 CEST 2013


Andrew Barnert writes:

 > If 二万三十, 2万3十, and 20030 all decode to 20030 from Japanese

Only the third does in a non-locale-specific way.  The characters for
"man" and "juu" have numeric values, but not decimal ones.

 > In some cases, the answer is probably just "don't do that".

I think (for builtins) that's the answer for all non-ASCII cases.<0.5 wink/>


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