On 4/18/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/17/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The locale module doesn't deal with Unicode, only with 8-bit characters (not > > multi-byte characters). You'll lose this anyway. Certainly > > string.letters is not going to provide this functionality. > > But for languages in Latin1, 8-bit characters are sufficient -- > anything with more than 8 bits is by definition not a (local) letter.
Latin-1 is just another encoding (and not a very useful one given that it can't encode all of Unicode). I don't want to define a feature that only works for Latin-1. > I won't swear that localizations currently replace string.letters with > the appropriately ordered (slight) superset, but it is a valid use > case, and string* (or text*) is clearly the right place. The right solution for locale-dependent collation for sure isn't having a string containing all the letters in the right order. There are plenty of languages where that approach doesn't even work. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
