On 4/18/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/18/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/18/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But we already went over this. There are over 40K letters in Unicode. > > It simply makes no sense to have a string.letters approaching that > > size. > > Agreed. But there aren't 40K (alphabetic) letters in any particular > locale. Most individual languages will have less than 100.
I missed the beginning of this discussion, so sorry if you've already covered this. Are you saying that in your app, just because I've set the en_US locale, I won't be able to type "こにちは"? Or that those characters won't be recognized as letters? The Unicode character database (http://www.unicode.org/ucd/) seems like the obvious way to handle character properties if you want to get the right answers. Namasté, Jeffrey Yasskin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
