# Test a UTF-8 encoded literal s = "asdf©qwer" for i in range(len(s)): print("s[%d]: %s %X"%(i, s[i], ord(s[i]))) # Test all three forms of Unicode escape, and # all blocks of UTF-8 byte patterns s = "a\xA9\xFF\u0123\u0800\uFFEE\U0001F44C" for i in range(-len(s), len(s)): print("s[%d]: %s %X"%(i, s[i], ord(s[i]))) print("s[:%d]: %d chars, '%s'"%(i, len(s[:i]), s[:i])) for j in range(i, len(s)): print("s[%d:%d]: %d chars, '%s'"%(i, j, len(s[i:j]), s[i:j])) print("s[%d:]: %d chars, '%s'"%(i, len(s[i:]), s[i:])) # Test UTF-8 encode and decode enc = s.encode() print(enc, enc.decode() == s) # printing of unicode chars using repr # TODO we don't do this correctly #print(repr(s))