Hi Andrea,
Thank for the feedback. Comments are included incline:
I18n G.A.L. wrote:
Brian, et al,
I'm not able to do a whole lot online, but I've read over the plan.
Here are my comments:
1. In general, it's best to specify the character encoding scheme (or
form) directly. "Unicode" can mean UTF-8, UTF-16 (BE or LE), or
UTF-32. I recommend using UTF-8 wherever possible, unless working
within a 16-bit oriented environment (such as Java), where I'd
recommend UTF-16.
When referring to unicode lower case I am talking about Python's
unicode object which can be utf-16 (BE or LE) or utf-32 depending on the
platform it was compiled on. So the actual unicode storage type is not
fixed. PyICU on the other hand and ICU for that matter uses utf-16. I
believe the Repository is storing Unicode as utf-8.
2. As for test plans, they would need to be more elaborate. Many
areas are discussed in
http://developer.sun.com/dev/gadc/des_dev/Intl_Testing.html
+1
I agree completely. It is just an area of the proposal I have not had a
chance to flush out yet.
3. Nitpick, Unicode is capitalized.
Sure. It its gets a bit confusing since really I am referring to two
things Unicode (the standard) and unicode the Python object. Perhaps I
should put a brief note detailing the differences at the beginning of
the document and use Unicode to refer to the standard and unicode to
refer to Python's object.
Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with the Chandler code to
determine whether the code specifics are adequate to address i18n. If
I have time to learn it (and Python), I'll revisit the plan. Right
now I'm still in transition (see http://i18ngal.blogspot.com :-)
Any feedback would greatly be appreciated.
Best,
Andrea Vine
Thanks,
Brian Kirsch
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Hello,
The .6 i18n spec is ready for comments. I will be offline
Wednesday and
Thursday of next week dealing with the move.
I will be back online next Friday to address any feedback.
http://viewcvs.o11n.org/docs/trunk/docs/specs/rel0_6/Internationalization-0.6.html?rev=209&content-type=text%2Fplain
Aloha,
Brian
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