ÿ in Unicode

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2020-03-06, Pieter van Oostrum <pieter-l at vanoostrum.org> wrote:
> Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> writes:
>> On 2020-03-06, moi <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Le jeudi 5 mars 2020 13:20:38 UTC+1, Ben Bacarisse a écrit :
>>>> moi <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> >>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-8')
>>>> > b'\xc3\xbf'
>>>> >>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-16-le')
>>>> > b'\xff\x00'
>>>> >>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-32-le')
>>>> > b'\xff\x00\x00\x00'
>>>
>>>> That all looks as expected.
>>> Yes
>>>
>>>>Is there something about the output that puzzles you?
>>> No
>>>
>>>>Did you have a question?
>>> No, only a comment
>>>
>>> This buggy language is very amusing.
>>
>> What's the bug, or source of amusement?
>
> The bug is in the mental world of the OP.

Quite possibly. I must admit I was just interested to learn what
they thought was wrong or amusing in the above. There's plenty of
room to have reasonable differing opinions on Unicode strings and
how they're implemented in languages, but it's not at all obvious
what could be different in those specific expressions.