On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:33:47 -0500, Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 1:16 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Making ICU optional, at least. It's too problematic on too many
platforms, and just turns into a big headache. It seemed like a good
idea at the time, and while it's still
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I expect I'll put together a Unicode charset that uses ICU to do its
thing, and go from there. We certainly need Unicode support, so it's
not like we can't do it. (And we still don't have a better option,
unfortunately)
ICU 3.0 should be out AFAIK. This
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 6:16 PM +0100 11/2/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
If it's pure binary pitch a fit.
If it has an encoding attached, continue,
Yeah, that's the plan.
I'd like to add another entry to the internal API:
OPTIONAL_INTERNAL_EXCEPTION
which works like
Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Python has two data types: str and unicode.
Python's unicode features are probably not really good examples
generally. Ongoing discussion in Python lists seem to indicate that
there a rather rough edges still.
- Sam Ruby
leo
Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a
binary string...
What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase
itself? (You may assume that we have strings which are explicitly
marked at least Unicode, so there
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:53:08AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a
binary string...
What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase
itself? (You may assume that we
Dan~
I vote for doing nothing in the up/down case options as those are
frequently just used to get a cannonical form for comparison.
Although I could understand an argument for throwing an exception...
Matt
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:53:08 -0500, Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, here's
At 12:11 PM -0500 11/2/04, Matt Fowles wrote:
Dan~
I vote for doing nothing in the up/down case options as those are
frequently just used to get a cannonical form for comparison.
Although I could understand an argument for throwing an exception...
People better not be using binary data as a
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a binary
string...
What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase itself?
(You may assume that we have strings which are explicitly marked at
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a binary
string...
What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase itself?
(You may assume that we have strings which are explicitly marked at
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it operates
is to take the range of bytes that correspond to us-ascii and perform a
us-ascii uppercase on them. The remaining bytes are left alone.
I'd prefer parrot not to
At 5:43 PM + 11/2/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it operates
is to take the range of bytes that correspond to us-ascii and perform a
us-ascii uppercase on them. The remaining
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a
binary string...
What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase
itself?
If it's pure binary pitch a fit.
If it has an
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 5:43 PM + 11/2/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it operates
is to take the range of bytes that correspond to us-ascii and perform a
us-ascii uppercase on
At 6:16 PM +0100 11/2/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a
binary string...
What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase
itself?
If
At 1:16 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 5:43 PM + 11/2/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it operates
is to take the range of bytes that correspond to us-ascii
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 1:16 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 5:43 PM + 11/2/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it
operates
is to take the range of bytes that
At 1:42 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 1:16 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 5:43 PM + 11/2/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski):
Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a
binary string...
What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase
itself? (You may assume that we have strings which
On Nov 2, 2004, at 10:46 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 1:42 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
I don't care if Parrot uses ICU on any platform.
I do care that Parrot supports utf-8 on every platform.
Ah, OK. Yes, we will support all the unicode encodings, as well as the
unicode character set, on all
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