Re: Unicode strings and invalid codepoints
Chris Angelico <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Martin Bähr <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Chris Angelico's message of 2015-03-09 03:52:14 +0100: >> Are there situations in which it's necessary to be able to store these >> kinds of noncharacters in a string? > > strings may be just binary data. > why should binary data in a string literal be an error? > > greetings, martin. Indeed, so it's not safe to disallow anything 00-FF; but D800-DFFF can't be binary data. ChrisA