[issue6632] Include more fullwidth chars in the decimal codec
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Aug 6 16:04:34 CEST 2009
Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:
[Mark Dickinson]
> Python's current support for localization in int and float seems
> largely accidental, as far as I can tell.
[MAL]
> Not at all. [...]
Apologies; 'accidental' was a poor choice of word here.
> however, I did not look
> at things like decimal points, minus/plus signs, etc. at the
> time and only included support for numeric values associated
> with a number of code points, such as ½ for 1/2.
I'm less concerned about decimal points and the like, and more bothered by
the fact that e.g., int(x, 16) accepts some, but not all, characters with
the Hex_Digit property. This seems counter to the intent of the Unicode
standard.
[MAL]
> My suggestion is to wait for the Unicode locale project to collect
> locale based information on numeric formatting. [...]
Sounds fine to me.
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