[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] Unicode minus sign in numeric conversions

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 13.06.2013 13:18, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I think this whole thread has gone pretty far afield, though. The
> original question was whether 'int("-1") == int("-\{MINUS SIGN}1")'
> should hold, and I agree with Lukasz and MAL that it should. I'm only
> +0 on the other characters MAL mentioned, though (FULLWIDTH PLUS SIGN,
> SUPERSCRIPT PLUS SIGN, SUPERSCRIPT MINUS).

FYI:

The discussion of the original request is now continuing on this
ticket: http://bugs.python.org/issue10581

I like Alexander's idea with using normalization. We'd only have
to solve the potential performance issue for the much more common
ASCII case.

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