[XML-SIG] Developer's Day

[Walter Doerwald]

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:35:54 +0100 Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> (I'm currently not on this list, so it took me
> a while to notice this post.  please cc any
> followups to me):
>=20
> Walter Doerwald wrote:
> > >     the "SXP" tradeoff (this is our upcoming sgmlop
> > >     replacement) is "like sgmlop, but usually faster,
> > >     fully supports utf-8 and unicode, and is written
> >                                ^^^^^^^
> > Does this mean UCS-2/UTF-16 encoded unicode like
> > NotePad does on WinNT?
>=20
> yes -- thanks to the new unicode string type that
> is currently being added to the python core.  the
> SXP library relies on this and the new unicode reg-
> exp engine (SRE).

I hope that Unicode is really in the python core, I want to
type Python scripts in UCS-2 with japanese variable names. ;)

> > >     in pure python 1.6 (!)"
> >
> > When?
>
> afaik, the unicode and SRE sources will appear in
> the CVS version early next year.  SXP should be
> available soon thereafter.
>
> as for when there will be an official 1.6 release,
> your guess is as good as mine ;-)

Servus...
	Walter

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