Unicode support in Python 1.6

Fredrik Lundh effbot at telia.com
Wed Feb 16 11:38:44 EST 2000


Daniel Dittmar <daniel.dittmar at sap.com> wrote:
> Can anyone explain how Unicode will look like in 1.6? I suppose there
> will be a new type similar to strings

yes.

> but will there be Unicode literals?

yes.

> And will some standard modules be Unicode aware such that they
> will accept either Unicode or standard strings?

yes.

(more info coming soon)

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