Hi Ted,
I have to write the busy developers guide for I18n. I will be doing this
soon as I finish my newly assigned .6 bugs :)
To sum up:
Text == a Python unicode object. It can also accept 7bit ascii but not
8bit charsets.
Bytes == a Python str object which can accept any 8bit value.
Bytes was intended for developer level tasks in which using a unicode
object would be overkill.
There are some inconsistencies in the schema currently in terms of where
Bytes are used. This will be remedied in the early stages of .7.
In fact with the change Andi made recently to Text to accept 7bit ascii
as well as unicode I am pretty sure I will be getting rid of Bytes in
.7. If a developer needs 8bit the Lob type is available. For .6
however, this is where we stand.
Hope this helped,
Brian
Brian Kirsch - Email Framework Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
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Ted Leung wrote:
Hi Brian,
Is there something that I can read that would help me understand when
to use Text vs Bytes?
Ted
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