[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

[Martin v. Loewis]

Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:

> > By default Python is using UTF-16 as its Unicode encoding. The
> > code-point that you specify, U+10800, is outside the BMP and hence is
> > represented by two surrogate characters in UTF-16.
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> Arg! Does that mean that by default Python isn't strictly conform to XML
> 1.0?

No. Why do you think this?

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> > If you were to recompile your Python installation to use UTF-32 as the
> > Unicode character type then I expect that you will get the length you
> > expect.
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> But that would also mean that a library relying on this would work only
> with Python installations compiled to use UTF-32 :-(
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> > Consider:
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> > >>> c=3D u"\u4e00"
> > >>> c
> > u'\u4e00'
> > >>> len(c)
> > 1
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> Yes, my lenght being "2" was due to the fact that the character takes
> more than 16 bits...
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> Thanks
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> Eric
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