Re: [comp.lang.python] Unicode patches checked in

[Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>]

Florian Weimer writes:
> Has anybody on this list reviewed the new Unicode support in Python
> (see <200003110020.TAA17777@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in comp.lang.ada)?

This is great news: Python 1.6 will have Unicode support integrated!

Here is a copy of Guido van Rossum's message; see
http://x25.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=595900999&search=thread&CONTEXT=954162809.442302469&HIT_CONTEXT=954162809.442302469&hitnum=0

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 Author: Guido van Rossum <guido@xxxxxxxxxx>
 Subject: Unicode patches checked in
 Date: 03/10/2000

 I've just checked in a massive patch from Marc-Andre Lemburg
 which adds Unicode support to Python.  This work was
 financially supported by Hewlett-Packard.  Marc-Andre has
 done a tremendous amount of work, for which I cannot thank
 him enough.
  
 We're still awaiting some more things: Marc-Andre gave me
 documentation patches which will be reviewed by Fred Drake
 before they are checked in; Fredrik Lundh has developed a
 new regular expression which is Unicode-aware and which
 should be checked in real soon now. Also, the documentation
 is probably incomplete and will be updated, and of course
 there may be bugs -- this should be considered alpha
 software.  However, I believe it is quite good already,
 otherwise I wouldn't have checked it in!
  
 I'd like to invite everyone with an interest in Unicode or
 Python 1.6 to check out this new Unicode-aware Python, so
 that we can ensure a robust code base by the time Python 1.6
 is released (planned release date: June 1, 2000).  The
 download links are below.
  
 Links:
  
 http://www.python.org/download/cvs.html
     Instructions on how to get access to the CVS version.
     (David Ascher is making nightly tarballs of the CVS
     version available at
 http://starship.python.net/crew/da/pythondists/)
  
 http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/unicode-proposal.txt
     The latest version of the specification on which the Marc
     has based his implementation.
  
 http://www.python.org/sigs/i18n-sig/
     Home page of the i18n-sig (Internationalization SIG),
     which has lots of other links about this and related
     issues.
  
 http://www.python.org/search/search_bugs.html
     The Python Bugs List.  Use this for all bug reports.

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 --Guido van Rossum (home page:
 http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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