Hi all, longtime listener, first time caller... We're learning Django now and hope to use it for next gen online surveys later this year. We're doing an 8-language app now in Unicode in Active Server Pages and while so far it hasn't been as painful as I'd expected, I'd be even more drawn to Django if it made this sort of thing even easier than it does already (helping me get the heck out of ASP town).
As both a Django and Unicode newbie, I was surprised to see this topic come up here, I didn't realize that the current Unicode-byte strings (or whatever they're called) weren't "good enough" i18n... from the docs I'd thought Django would take care of all this for me. I'd vote with the perfectionists, please find a way to get this in before 1.0 and it'll be one more advantage Django has over other frameworks. The world is flat, etc. Thanks all for a terrific tool and excuse my ignorance as a Django wannabe. Shane McChesney Nooro Online Research: Your Online Research Department http://www.nooro.com Adrian Holovaty wrote: > On 6/28/06, Andrey Golovizin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am using Django for about half a year and it rocks. Indeed, it would rock >> even more if it switched from using UTF-8 bytestrings to use unicode strings >> everywhere. >> > > Some quick thoughts -- > > I think we should do this. > > We are, after all, perfectionists. > > Not only do we want to show even more love toward the international > community, I just like the idea of passing Unicode strings everywhere. > It seems so clean. > > The only big problem I see is that it could confuse the (unfortunately > large) mass of programmers who don't understand Unicode yet. That is a > big potential pitfall. > > If we're going to do it, we should do it before 1.0, and we'd need > extensive tests. > > Adrian > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
