[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:10:52PM -0600, Jeremy Kloth wrote:
> However that is really two characters 0x1080 and 0x0030.  \u (lowercase)
> only takes 4 hex digits.  \U (uppercase) takes 8 digits.  So to create the
> character 0x10800, the sequence should be u'\U0010800'.

  Oops, my bad, I just tried to reproduce Eric's problem case

> To truly see if Python has wide unicode support:
> 
> import sys
> print sys.maxunicode
> 
> if the result is >65536, then it was compiled with "--enable-unicode=ucs4",
> which the RPM spec file for python 2.2.1 does use.

7.3:

paphio:~ -> python2.2
Python 2.2 (#1, Apr 12 2002, 15:29:57) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-109)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.maxunicode 
1114111
>>> 

latest:

gnome:~ -> python
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Aug 30 2002, 12:15:30) 
[GCC 3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.maxunicode 
65535
>>> 

  Hum, maybe you should not count on it :-\

aniel

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