> I'm more concerned with your (yours? someone else's?) mention of shift > characters. I'm unfamiliar with these encodings: to translate such a > thing into a Latin example, is it the case that there are schemes with > valid encodings that look like: > > [SHIFT] a b c > > which would produce "ABC" in unicode, which is ambiguous with: > > A B C > > which would also produce "ABC"?
No: the "shift" in "shift-jis" is not really about the shift key. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift-JIS Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com