[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit

[Mark Hammond]

> 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,

No disagreement as such, but a small hole:

From the proposal:

Internal Argument Parsing:
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...
's':	For Unicode objects: auto convert them to the <default encoding>
	and return a pointer to the object's <defencbuf> buffer.

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Excellent - if someone passes a Unicode object, it can be
auto-converted to a string.  This will allow "open()" to accept
Unicode strings.

However, there doesnt appear to be a reverse.  Eg, if my extension
module interfaces to a library that uses Unicode natively, how can I
get a Unicode object when the user passes a string?  If I had to
explicitely check for a string, then check for a Unicode on failure it
would get messy pretty quickly...  Is it not possible to have "U" also
do a conversion?

Mark.