[Python-ideas] Input characters in strings by decimals (Was: Proposal for default character representation)

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/7/2016 7:22 PM, Mikhail V wrote:
> On 8 December 2016 at 01:13, Nick Timkovich <prometheus235 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, why do you prefer decimal values to refer to Unicode code
>> points? Most references, http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf (official)
>> or https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/0000-0FFF ,
>> prefer to refer to them by hexadecimal as the planes and ranges are broken
>> up by hex values.
>
> Well, there was a huge discussion in October, see the subject name.
> Just didnt want it to go again in that direction.
> So in short hex notation not so readable and anyway decimal is
> kind of standard way to represent numbers and I treat string as a number array
> when I am processing it, so hex simply is redundant and not needed for me.

I sympathize with your preference, but ... Perhap the hex numbers would 
bother you less if you thought of them as 'serial numbers'.  It is 
standard for 'serial numbers' to include letters.  It is also common for 
digit-letter serial numbers to have meaningful fields, as as do the hex 
versions of unicode serial numbers.  The decimal versions are 
meaningless except as strict sequencers.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy