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Author	loewis
Recipients	ajaksu2, amaury.forgeotdarc, effbot, gvanrossum, lemburg, loewis
Date	2008-09-11.06:05:22
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> The control characters? Indeed, also the private-use characters. test_unicode explicitly comments that the test is about unassigned characters, although I don't understand the purpose of that test (it then also tests a surrogate character, which is also guaranteed to remain unprintable). One of the characters that is guaranteed to remain unassigned is U+FFFE (and its mirrors in other planes, e.g. U+1FFFE, ...). This guarantee is made to support the BOM. Along with U+FFFF, these are non-characters. #765036 once suggested that Python should refuse to represent them at all, but that proposal was rejected.

> The control characters?

Indeed, also the private-use characters. test_unicode explicitly
comments that the test is about unassigned characters, although
I don't understand the purpose of that test (it then also tests
a surrogate character, which is also guaranteed to remain
unprintable).

One of the characters that is guaranteed to remain unassigned is
U+FFFE (and its mirrors in other planes, e.g. U+1FFFE, ...).
This guarantee is made to support the BOM. Along with U+FFFF,
these are non-characters. #765036 once suggested that Python should
refuse to represent them at all, but that proposal was rejected.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-09-11 06:05:23	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, lemburg, gvanrossum, effbot, amaury.forgeotdarc, ajaksu2
2008-09-11 06:05:22	loewis	link	issue3811 messages
2008-09-11 06:05:22	loewis	create