RetroSearch Browse

Mon Aug 25 15:43:43 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-August/081974.html

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 23:35, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I was just paid a visit by my Google colleague Mark Davis, co-founder
> of the Unicode project and the president of the Unicode Consortium. He
> would like to see improved Unicode support for Python. (Well duh. :-)
> On his list of top priorities are:
>
> 1. Upgrade the unicodata module to the Unicode 5.1.0 standard
> 2. Extende the unicodedata module with some additional properties
> 3. Add support for Unicode properties to the regex syntax, including
> Boolean combinations

Adding support for SpecialCasing rules[0] would be good for full
Unicode support too. It would fix i/I problems that are currently
going on with Turkish locale.

[0] http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/SpecialCasing.txt

Regards,
ismail

-- 
Programmer Excuse #17: The processor stack spring has worn out.

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-August/081974.html below:

[Python-Dev] Unicode 5.1.0