> He says "the tools aren't ready yet", which I take to > mean that Python won't need to support it until all > widely-used editors, email and news software, etc, etc, > reliably support displaying and editing of all > unicode characters. We're clearly a long way from > that situation.
I don't understand that requirement. Clearly, editors do support non-ASCII characters already for many years (atleast since 1980, maybe longer). Is the complaint that a single editor does not support all characters? I don't see a need for that - the editor will present a replacement character. However, if somebody bothered entering the character in a source file, there is actually a high chance that an editor can display it (how else did he enter the character?) Or is the complaint that editors don't support UTF-8? That is simply not true anymore. E.g. IDLE has supported editing UTF-8 for several Python releases now. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
