Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

2010-12-02 Thread haiyang kang
Furthermore, data can well originate from texts that were written hundreds or even thousands of years ago, so there is plenty of material available for processing. humm..., for this, i think we need a special tuned language processing system to handle this, and one subsystem for one language

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

2010-11-30 Thread haiyang kang
hi, I agree with this. I never seen any man in China using chinese number literals (at least two kinds:一, 壹, same meaning with 1) in Python program, except UI output. They can do some mappings when want to output these non-ascii numbers. Example: if 1: print 一 I think it is a

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

2010-11-30 Thread haiyang kang
But you should be able to write: text = input(Enter a number using your preferred digits: ) num = float(text) without caring whether the user enters 一.一 or 1.1 or something else. yes. from logical point of view, this can happen. But i really doubt that if really there are users who would