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Tue Nov 30 18:40:52 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/106188.html

On 30/11/2010 16:40, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> [snip...]
> And of course,
>
>>>> unicodedata.digit('\U0001D7CE')
> 0
>
> but
>
>>>> int('\U0001D7CE')
> ..
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'decimal' codec can't encode character '\ud835' ..
>
> on a narrow Unicode build.  (Note the character reported in the error message!)
>
>
> If you think non-ASCII digits are not difficult to support, please
> contribute to the following tracker issues:
>

Would moving this functionality to the locale module make the issues any 
easier to fix?

Michael

> http://bugs.python.org/issue10581
> (Review and document string format accepted in numeric data type constructors)
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue10557
> (Malformed error message from float())
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue10435
> (Document unicode C-API in reST - Specifically, PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal)
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue8646
> (PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal is undocumented)
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue6632
> (Include more fullwidth chars in the decimal codec)
>
> and back to the issue of user confusion
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue652104 [closed/invalid]
> (int(u"\u1234") raises UnicodeEncodeError by Guido van Rossum)
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