[Info-vax] Does OpenVMS Use Unicode?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-06-13 12:15, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> We use the Python port to run our web applications. And Python
> uses 7-bit for it's basic "string" data type. So I simply made
> a short function to change into the HTML variants like:
>
> def html_esc(string):
>   tmpx1 = string.replace(u'\xe5','å')
>   tmpx1 = tmpx1.replace(u'\xe4','ä')
>   tmpx1 = tmpx1.replace(u'\xf6','ö')
>   tmpx1 = tmpx1.replace(u'\xf8','ø')
>   tmpx1 = tmpx1.replace(u'\xd8','Ä')
>   tmpx1 = tmpx1.replace(u'\xc7',' ')
>   tmpx1 = tmpx1.replace(u'[','Ä')
>   tmpx1 = tmpx1.replace(u']','Å')
>   tmpx1 = tmpx1.replace(u'\\','Ö')
>   return tmpx1
>
> Maybe there is something built-in in Python for this also,
> I do not know and I never looked for it. This works OK.

I don't know how to break this to you gently so... You are not using 
7-bit data for your strings. In fact, your code snippet here is clearly 
looking for character with the 8th bit set. What you have there is 
essentially Latin-1, or if you prefer to call it DEC MCS, or ISO 8859-1, 
or Unicode, is up to you. But it's definitely not 7-bit data strings...

	Johnny