This is an interesting idea, and deserves more discussion before opening a PR :)
--Ned. On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Omar Al-Ithawi <oith...@qrf.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > We've had a discussion in the Slack group (link > <https://openedx.slack.com/archives/general/p1476983163001638>), about > providing an even better support for unicode strings in the edX platform. > > Django already encourages the use of Unicode everywhere, and there has > been so many efforts to support unicode in the platform. But it seems that > adding the *u""* is very easy to get forgotten. > > One solution is to move to Python 3 of course. The other more approachable > solution is to adopt the unicode literals in every python script: > > - from __future__ import unicode_literals > > > I know this is not straightforward but I think it's worth taking the > effort. This article <http://python-future.org/unicode_literals.html> > explains a lot about the subject. > > I would like to hear from you and perhaps someone can open a PR for this. > > Thanks, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "General Open edX discussion" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/edx-code/a50dd461-a9f6-4402-9c1e-42a4c4426543%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/a50dd461-a9f6-4402-9c1e-42a4c4426543%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/CAGtJPNNishEo_gNHcAV4N%2BwpJs8rAwEwjZkuHTetoQ8K_25N%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com.
