[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2013-06-22 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Most of changes are applicable to Python 2 too. Do you want backport part of your patch to 2.7? -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2013-06-20 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1dbbed06a163 by Andrew Kuchling in branch '3.3': #4153: update Unicode howto for Python 3.3 http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1dbbed06a163 -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2013-06-20 Thread A.M. Kuchling
A.M. Kuchling added the comment: As far as I can tell, there are no other outstanding suggestions for howto updates, so I'll now close this item. Feel free to re-open or file a new item if there are further improvements that can be made. -- resolution: - fixed stage: commit review -

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2013-06-08 Thread A.M. Kuchling
A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Continuing my tour of the howtos, here's a patch making many of the changes discussed here and on issue13997. Changes made: * state that python3 source encoding is UTF-8, and give examples * mention surrogateescape in the 'tips and tricks' section, and

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2013-06-08 Thread A.M. Kuchling
A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Updated version of my patch, which adds two more todo items and handles Ezio's review comments: * Switch from Greek examples to French, and remove non-Latin-1 characters. * Change language for bytes.decode to but supports a few more possible handlers. *

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2013-06-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan added the comment: amk's latest patch looks like a very nice improvement to me. One suggested wording tweak for the aside about the simplified history: s/The average Python programmer doesn't need to know the historical details/The precise historical details aren't relevant to

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2013-01-27 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: As discussed in #13997, the HOWTO should be reorganized to start with a basic introduction and then expand on more advanced topic. See also msg180743 for a couple of essays that could be linked as see also or integrated in the HOWTO. --

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2013-01-26 Thread Chris Rebert
Changes by Chris Rebert pyb...@rebertia.com: -- nosy: +cvrebert ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2013-01-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
Nick Coghlan added the comment: The section in the HOWTO on Python's unicode support also misses the fact that the easiest way to include a Unicode character in a string literal in Python 3 is to *include that character in the string literal* (since source code is now treated as UTF-8 by

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2013-01-20 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 260a9afd999a by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2': #4153: update the Unicode howto. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/260a9afd999a New changeset 572ca3d35c2f by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.3': #4153: merge with 3.2.

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2013-01-20 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: I committed the attached patch with some minor modifications, but there are still comments that should be addressed on Rietveld. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153

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2012-09-26 Thread Ezio Melotti
Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com: -- assignee: - ezio.melotti ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153 ___ ___

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2011-09-17 Thread Ezio Melotti
Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +ncoghlan ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

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2011-09-02 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: something about Unicode supports in the re module (this probably can wait after the 'regex' inclusion). I’d prefer documentation for the re module now. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2011-09-02 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: it also removes the usage of 'byte string'. I see you’ve replaced it with “byte object”. I’m -0, as “byte[s] string” is not ambiguous IMO. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

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2011-09-02 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment: There was some discussion a while ago on python-dev about it. AFAIR the outcome was that using bytes *strings* should be avoided because bytes are bytes, and not strings (until they get decoded at least). Using 'string' for both might

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2011-09-02 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Ah, I see: you’re equating “string” with “text string” or “character string”, whereas I read “bytes string” as “finite sequence of bytes”. With this definition, there *are* two string types in Python 3, it’s just that they’re much more

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2011-09-01 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment: After the recent discussions on python-dev I went through the Unicode howto and fixed a few things, then I found this issue so I'm attaching the patch here. The patch addresses mostly markup issues, but it also removes the usage of 'byte

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2011-09-01 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment: I also left a few comments on rietveld about other things that can be improved. Please reply and comment there. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153

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2010-11-19 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Committed in revision 86530. Thanks Terry and Raymond for your comments. I would like to keep this issue open (at a low priority) because the question in the titles is still relevant. There are many new 3.x features

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2010-11-19 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Agreed on 1 and 3. Regarding 2, looking at the early history of the file makes me suspect that amk is the author. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153

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2010-11-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Changes by Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19632/issue4153.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153 ___

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2010-11-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Changes by Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file19631/issue4153.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153 ___

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2010-11-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: r82301 appears to be a blind merge of r82120 from the trunk. It is fairly obvious that it was not intentional. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

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2010-11-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Changes by Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net: -- nosy: +akuchling ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153 ___ ___

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2010-11-18 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

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2010-11-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Thanks for persisting with this. Looking at the patch: @@ -65,7 +63,7 @@ goal was to have Unicode contain the alphabets for every single human language. It turns out that even 16 bits isn't enough to meet that goal, and the modern Unicode

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2010-11-18 Thread Ezio Melotti
Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +ezio.melotti ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

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2010-11-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Terry J. Reedy rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: .. I visually parse 0-1,114,111 as 0-1, 114, 111. So I think either the commas should be removed or extra spaces are needed: 0-1114111 or 0 -

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2010-11-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Alexander Belopolsky rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: .. I really think of them as hex or hexadecimal digits, just as 0-9 are decimal, not base 10 digits. I am fine with hexadecimal here.

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2010-11-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: 0 through ... is fine with me. Yes, hex numeral would be more accurate than hex digit. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4153

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2010-11-18 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Yes, hex numeral would be more accurate than hex digit. Stick with hex digit. We've used that phraseology for a long time. See string.hexdigits for example. And hex numeral just sounds weird -- it makes me do a

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2010-11-17 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Alexander Belopolsky belopol...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Reopening because it looks like the fix was reverted in r82301. This HOWTO discusses Python 2.x’s support for Unicode, and explains various problems that people commonly encounter when trying to work with Unicode. (This

[issue4153] Unicode HOWTO up to date?

2008-11-22 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: Thanks for noting this! The most basic changes had been done, but I had to revise some sections for changes. Done in r67338. -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker [EMAIL