Re: Problems with case folding of UTF-8

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> 
> > Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > >
> > > Can you, Stig and Michael, provide a set of strings that do not
> > > work, so that I can try to see what's going on?
> >
> > Well, Ströder (hopefully properly encoded as ISO-8859-1 in this
> > e-mail) is one. The hex-escaped string representation produced by
> > Python's UTF-8 Unicode codec is:
> >
> > 'Str\xc3\xb6der'
> >
> > Furthermore here are all the german umlauts (each two bytes long):
> >
> > 'äöüÄÖÜß' ->
> >
> > '\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3\xbc\xc3\x84\xc3\x96\xc3\x9c\xc3\x9f'
> 
> I guess you also need to omit the 'x' right? '\c3\a4' and so ...

Depends what your interpreter/compiler is:
Read Python's string representation '\xc3' as being a string of
length one with the single byte of value [use your favourite
hex-representation of decimal 195 here].

;-)

Ciao, Michael.