[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:24:27 -0500 (EST)


M.-A. Lemburg writes:
 > Guido proposed to add it to sys. I originally had it defined in
 > unicodec.

  Well, he clearly didn't ask me!  ;-)

 > Perhaps a sys.endian would be more appropriate for sys
 > with values 'little' and 'big' or '<' and '>' to be conform
 > to the struct module.
 > 
 > unicodec could then define unicodec.bom depending on the setting
 > in sys.

  This seems more reasonable, though I'd go with BOM instead of bom.
But that's a style issue, so not so important.  If your write bom,
I'll write bom.


  -Fred

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