Python Unicode handling wins again -- mostly

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Le mardi 3 décembre 2013 15:26:45 UTC+1, Ethan Furman a écrit :
> On 12/02/2013 12:38 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
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> > On 11/29/2013 04:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> >> Out of the nine tests, Python 3.3 passes six, with three tests being
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> >> failures or dubious. If you believe that the native string type should
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> >> operate on code-points, then you'll think that Python does the right
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> >> thing.
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> > I think Python is doing it correctly.  If I want to operate on "clusters" I'll normalize the string first.
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> Hrmm, well, after being educated ;) I think I may have to reverse my position.  Given that not every cluster can be 
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> normalized to a single code point perhaps Python is doing it the best possible way.  On the other hand, we have a 
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> uni*code* type, not a uni*char* type.  Maybe 3.5 can have that.  ;)
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Yon intuitively pointed a very important feature
of "unicode". However, it is not necessary, this is
exactly what unicode does (when used properly).

jmf