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

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> it somehow settled in
> peoples' minds that hex reference should be preferred, for no solid
reason IMO.

I may be showing my age, but all the facts that I remember about ASCII
codes are in hex:

1. SPACE is 0x20 followed by punctuation symbols.
2. Decimal digits start at 0x30 with '0' = 0x30, '1' = 0x31, ...
3. @ is 0x40 followed by upper-case letter: 'A' = 0x41, 'B' = 0x42, ...
4. Lower-case letters are offset by 0x20 from the uppercase ones: 'a' =
0x61, 'b' = 0x62, ...

Unicode is also organized around hexadecimal codes with various scripts
positioned in sections that start at round hexadecimal numbers.  For
example Cyrillic is at 0x0400 through 0x4FF <
http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf>.

The only decimal fact I remember about Unicode is that the largest
code-point is 1114111 - a palindrome!
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