[Python-Dev] Problems with the new unicodectype.c

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:
> 
>   Now, if we could do that for unicodedata and ucnhash, a lot more
> people would be happy!
>   Marc-Andre, Bill:  Would it be reasonable to have perfect_hash.py
> actually compress the text strings used for the character names?
> Since there's such a limited alphabet in use, something special
> purpose would probably be easy and do a lot of good.  When checking
> the lookup, you could easily decode the string in the table to do the
> comparison.

I don't have the time to look into this, sorry. 

Other things are more important now, like changing the handling
of the 's' and 't' parser markers for Unicode from UTF-8 to
default encoding.

This will complete the move from a fixed internal encoding to
a locale dependent setting and should fix most problems people
have noticed on their platforms.

BTW, does the XML package already use the builtin Unicode
support ?

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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