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Author	lemburg
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, gvanrossum, lemburg
Date	2008-04-05.16:51:56
SpamBayes Score	0.0938201
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<[email protected]>
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The was not a mistake, it was done on purpose since there would otherwise have been no way to add non-ASCII Unicode code points to a raw Unicode literal, rendering raw Unicode literals pretty useless. Even if you use UTF-8 as source code encoding, there's no way to add half a surrogate to a raw Unicode literal without the Unicode literals. If you need to write a Unicode literal escape using the raw Unicode escape encoding, you can use '\x1234'.

The was not a mistake, it was done on purpose since there would
otherwise have been no way to add non-ASCII Unicode code points to a raw
Unicode literal, rendering raw Unicode literals pretty useless.

Even if you use UTF-8 as source code encoding, there's no way to add
half a surrogate to a raw Unicode literal without the Unicode literals.

If you need to write a Unicode literal escape using the raw Unicode
escape encoding, you can use '\x1234'.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-04-05 16:52:57	lemburg	set	spambayes_score: 0.0938201 -> 0.0938201 recipients: + lemburg, gvanrossum, benjamin.peterson
2008-04-05 16:52:57	lemburg	set	spambayes_score: 0.0938201 -> 0.0938201 messageid: <[email protected]>
2008-04-05 16:51:57	lemburg	link	issue2557 messages
2008-04-05 16:51:56	lemburg	create