On 8/6/2018 10:10 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > Michael Felt <michael@felt.demon.nl> added the comment: > > In short, I do not understand how this passes on Linux. > > This is python3-3.4.6 on sles12: > >>>> 'h\xe9\u20ac'.encode('utf-8') > b'h\xc3\xa9\xe2\x82\xac' >>>> ascii('h\xe9\u20ac'.encode('utf-8')) > "b'h\\xc3\\xa9\\xe2\\x82\\xac'" >>>> 'h\xe9\u20ac'.encode('utf-8').decode('us-ascii', 'surrogateescape') > 'h\udcc3\udca9\udce2\udc82\udcac' > This is python3-3.7.0 on AIX: >>>> 'h\xe9\u20ac'.encode('utf-8') > b'h\xc3\xa9\xe2\x82\xac' >>>> ascii('h\xe9\u20ac'.encode('utf-8')) > "b'h\\xc3\\xa9\\xe2\\x82\\xac'" >>>> 'h\xe9\u20ac'.encode('utf-8').decode('us-ascii', 'surrogateescape') > 'h\udcc3\udca9\udce2\udc82\udcac' > > If I am missing something essential here - please be blunt! Also seeing the same with Windows. C:\Users\MICHAELFelt>python Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:06:47) [MSC v.1914 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 'h\xe9\u20ac'.encode('utf-8') b'h\xc3\xa9\xe2\x82\xac' >>> ascii('h\xe9\u20ac'.encode('utf-8')) "b'h\\xc3\\xa9\\xe2\\x82\\xac'" >>> 'h\xe9\u20ac'.encode('utf-8').decode('ascii','surrogateescape') 'h\udcc3\udca9\udce2\udc82\udcac' >>> > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> > <https://bugs.python.org/issue34347> > _______________________________________ >