> Sure, if we code it in Python, supporting it will by much easier:
>
> def normalize_digits(s):
> digits = {m.group(1) for m in re.finditer('(\d)', s)}
> trtab = {ord(d): str(unicodedata.digit(d)) for d in digits}
> return s.translate(trtab)
>
> >>> normalize_digits('١٢٣٤.٥٦')
> '1234.56'
>
> I am not sure this belongs to the locale module, however. It seems to
> me, something like 'unicodealgo' for unicode algorithms would be more
> appropriate.
It could simply be in unicodedata if you split the implementation into a
core C part and some Python bits.
Regards
Antoine.
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