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

[Alexandre Brault]

On 2016-12-07 09:07 PM, Mikhail V wrote:
> On 8 December 2016 at 01:57, Nick Timkovich <prometheus235 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> hex notation not so readable and anyway decimal is kind of standard way to
>>> represent numbers
>>
>> Can you cite some examples of Unicode reference tables I can look up a
>> decimal number in? They seem rare; perhaps in a list as a secondary column,
>> but they're not organized/grouped decimally. Readability counts, and
>> introducing a competing syntax will make it harder for others to read.
> There were links to such table in previos discussion. Googling
> "unicode table decimal" and
> first link will it be.
> I think most online tables include decimals as well, usually as tuples
> of 8-bit decimals.
The fact that you need to specify "unicode table *decimal*" in your
search, and that even then around half of the top results give the table
in hex, to me illustrates quite well how much of a minority opinion
"writing unicode characters in decimal is more logical" is