Message 97353 - Python tracker
Tested on 2.5... ~ $ python2.5 Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 21:59:32) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> u'%c' % '\x80' u'\Uffffff80' >>> On 2.7 (trunk) I get same behaviour as described on msg97334.