On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 6:19 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: .. > You can see the Unicode Consortium's stability policy at > > http://unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html >
>From the link above: """ As more experience is gathered in implementing the characters, adjustments in the properties may become necessary. Examples of such properties include, but are not limited to, the following: General_Category ... """ > In a sense, this is stronger than Python's backwards compatibility > promises (which allow for certain incompatible changes to occur > over time, whereas Unicode makes promises about all future versions). I would say it is *different* and should be taken into account when tying language features to Unicode specifications. This was done in PEP 3131. Note that one of the stated objections was "Unicode is young; its problems are not yet well understood and solved;" (It is still true.) _______________________________________________ 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
