[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Guido van Rossum writes:
>I think his proposal will go a long way towards your toolkit.  I hope
>to hear soon from anybody who disagrees with Marc-Andre's proposal,
>because without opposition this is going to be Python 1.6's offering
>for i18n...  

The proposal seems reasonable to me.

>(Together with a new Unicode regex engine by /F.)

This is good news!  Would it be a from-scratch regex implementation,
or would it be an adaptation of an existing engine?  Would it involve
modifications to the existing re module, or a completely new unicodere
module?  (If, unlike re.py, it has POSIX longest-match semantics, that
would pretty much settle the question.)

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