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: > > > > Today, string.letters works most easily with ASCII supersets, and is > > > effectively limited to 8-bit encodings. Once everything is unicode, I > > > don't think that 8-bit restriction should apply any more. > > > 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.
Here's a relevant bunch of data from the CLDR: http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/by_type/misc.exemplarCharacters.html -- 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
