http://www.jimprice.com/jim-asc.htm Everything you ever wanted to know about ASCII and probably more ;) I was looking at it the other day. Andreas Jung wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com> To: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@andreas-jung.com> Cc: <tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com>; "Steve Alexander" <steve@cat-box.net>; "Harry Wilkinson" <harryw@nipltd.com>; <zope-dev@zope.org> Sent: Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2001 09:37 Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Modifying Splitter.c to search on '+' & '#', and single letter words
Andreas Jung wrote:
As described earlier Python attributes are ASCII only.
It's mroe strict than that, they appear to have to be 7 bit ASCII, hence any 8-bit characters like the German ones you mentioned cause barfage when used as attribute names :-(
I always thought ASCII is 7 bit. 8 bit ASCII is more ISO-8859-X :-)
Andreas
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