Hi, On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 23:35, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just paid a visit by my Google colleague Mark Davis, co-founder > of the Unicode project and the president of the Unicode Consortium. He > would like to see improved Unicode support for Python. (Well duh. :-) > On his list of top priorities are: > > 1. Upgrade the unicodata module to the Unicode 5.1.0 standard > 2. Extende the unicodedata module with some additional properties > 3. Add support for Unicode properties to the regex syntax, including > Boolean combinations
Adding support for SpecialCasing rules[0] would be good for full Unicode support too. It would fix i/I problems that are currently going on with Turkish locale. [0] http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/SpecialCasing.txt Regards, ismail -- Programmer Excuse #17: The processor stack spring has worn out. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
