[I18n-sig] Random thoughts on Unicode and Python

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:39:44 +0100


> That's my concern, and the thing I want to poll people on.
> If Python "just works" for these users, and if we already offer
> Unicode strings and a good codec library for people to use when they
> want to, is there really a need to go further?

My simple answer is: no, not at the moment.

I can surely think of things that ought to work with the Unicode type
and which currently don't, but most of them are a matter of fixing
libraries.

Regards,
Martin