Serge.Orlov at gmail.com wrote: > So is the support of Unicode in virtually every computer language > because they don't support ... digits except 0..9. Hex digits aren't 0..9. Python 2.4 (#2, Dec 3 2004, 17:59:05) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 0xCF 207 >>> hex(123) '0x7b'