[r6rs-discuss] Python developer comments on Unicode

From: Jason Orendorff <jason.orendorff>
Date: Thu Mar 29 08:48:05 2007

[Disclaimer: I don't mean to stir this up again. It's just that I
said I would ask around--so here are the results, for what they're
worth.]

I asked python-dev about the feature where Python can optionally be
compiled for UTF-16 or UTF-32. Guido van Rossum, Marc-Andre Lemburg,
and Martin v. L?wis replied. These are the key Unicode people for
Python.

Apparently experience has not led to enlightenment, or at least not
the same enlightenment for everyone. There's one "no" vote, one
"yes, mainly for political reasons" vote, and one indifferent.

  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/072316.html
  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/072319.html
  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/072328.html

GvR considers multiple string implementations "unlikely to happen" in
Python, as a practical matter.

-j
Received on Thu Mar 29 2007 - 08:47:49 UTC

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