On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> What I was hoping for was a way to know whether it's useful to provide
> Unicode strings as results. In Esperanto, there are well-accepted
> conventions for ASCIIfying its Latin-3 letters. For example,
> "\x{0109}u" in Unicode would be written "cxu" in 7-bit/latin-1/ascii.
No, you _must_ provide Unicode. That's the standard for the locale
modules.
> If it's possible to know at runtime which is available, the locale could
> provide the more useful string. Perhaps this problem is out of the
> scope of DateTime, though...
Way, way, way out of scope ;) Users who want to use locales that return
Unicode data need to figure out a way to deal with this themselves.
-dave
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