[Info-vax] Does OpenVMS Use Unicode?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-06-13 kl. 13:20, skrev 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
>

Yes, in *this* part it works, but if the characters are not converter
it will break later...