Re: invalidly encoded strings

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>
> I don't understand whole discussion.
>
> Why do you think that employing the Unicode code point as the chr()
> argument could avoid endianness issues? Are you going to represent
> Unicode code point as UCS-4? Then you have to specify the endianness
> anyway.  (see the UCS-4 standard for more details)
>   

The code point is simply a number. The result of chr() will be a text 
value one char (not one byte) wide, in the relevant database encoding.

U+nnnn maps to the same Unicode char and hence the same UTF8 encoding 
pattern regardless of endianness. e.g. U+00a9 is the copyright symbol on 
all machines. So to get this char in a UTF8 database you could call 
"select chr(169)" and get back the byte pattern \xC2A9.

> Or are you going to represent Unicode point as a character string such
> as 'U+0259'? Then representing any encoding as a string could avoid
> endianness issues anyway, and I don't see Unicode code point is any
> better than others.
>   

The argument will be a number, as now.

> Also I'd like to point out all encodings has its own code point
> systems as far as I know. For example, EUC-JP has its corresponding
> code point systems, ASCII, JIS X 0208 and JIS X 0212. So I don't see
> we can't use "code point" as chr()'s argument for othe encodings(of
> course we need optional parameter specifying which character set is
> supposed).
>   

Where can I find the tables that map code points (as opposed to 
encodings) to characters for these others?

cheers

andrew