[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit

[Jack Jansen]

> > [MAL, on Unicode chr() and ord()
> > > ...
> > > Because unichr() will always have to return Unicode objects. You don't
> > > want chr(i) to return Unicode for i>255 and strings for i<256.

> > > OTOH, ord() could probably be extended to also work on Unicode objects.

> Fine. So I'll drop the uniord() API and extend ord() instead.

Hmm, then wouldn't it be more logical to drop unichr() too, but add an 
optional parameter to chr() to specify what sort of a string you want? The 
type-object of a unicode string comes to mind...
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