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Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Sascha Ziemann (07 May 2014 08:16 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Per Bothner (08 May 2014 01:35 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Alaric Snell-Pym (08 May 2014 12:22 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Jussi Piitulainen (08 May 2014 05:36 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Shiro Kawai (06 May 2014 21:04 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] DISCUSSION/VOTE: The character tower Jussi Piitulainen 08 May 2014 05:31 UTC 
Per Bothner writes:

> On 05/07/2014 01:26 PM, Bear wrote:
> > (string #\A #\x301) and (string #\xc1) are both expressions returning
> > a string.  Unicode canonical equivalence says they should return the
> > same string.
>
> In which programming languages, if any, do these expression (or similar
> expressions in appropriate syntax) return the same string?
> I don't know of any.

They don't in Python. I tried in 3.2.3 (in Ubuntu) and 3.4.0 (in Red
Hat).

   >>> 'A' + '\u0301', len('A' + '\u0301')
   ('Á', 2)
   >>> 'Á', len('Á')
   ('Á', 1)

Both print as a single character but the glyphs look slightly
different to me. The string lengths differ as shown.

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