New submission from Larry Hastings: Read this today:
http://mortoray.com/2013/11/27/the-string-type-is-broken/ In it the author talks about how the 'ffl' ligature breaks some string processing. He claimed that Python 3 doesn't uppercase it correctly--well, it does. However I discovered that it doesn't reverse it properly. x = b'ba\xef\xac\x84e'.decode('utf-8') # "baffle", where "ffl" is a ligature print(x) # prints "baffle", with the ligature print(x.upper()) # prints "BAFFLE", no ligature, which is fine print("".join(reversed(x))) # prints "efflab" Shouldn't that last line print "elffab"? If this gets marked as "wontfix" I wouldn't complain. Just wondering what the Right Thing is to do here. ---------- messages: 204628 nosy: larry priority: low severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: reversing a Unicode ligature doesn't work type: behavior versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19819> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
