Using the notation U+265E to mean the character with value In the standard and in this document, a code point is written A code point value is an integer in the range 0 to The Unicode standard describes how characters are represented byĬode points. They’ll usually look the same,īut these are two different characters that have different meanings. For example, there’s a character for “Roman Numeral One”, ‘Ⅰ’, that’s Characters varyĭepending on the language or context you’re talkingĪbout. ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’,Įtc., are all different characters. Revised and updated to add new languages and symbols.Ī character is the smallest possible component of a text. The Unicode specifications are continually List every character used by human languages and give each character Unicode ( ) is a specification that aims to Python’s string type uses the Unicode Standard for representingĬharacters, which lets Python programs work with all these different These languages and can also include a variety of emoji symbols. Same program might need to output an error message in English, French,

Messages and output in a variety of user-selectable languages the Applications are often internationalized to display Today’s programs need to be able to handle a wide variety ofĬharacters.

People commonly encounter when trying to work with Unicode. This HOWTO discusses Python’s support for the Unicode specificationįor representing textual data, and explains various problems that

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