Re: Python and Unicode (was Re: Three new Technical Notes posted)

2004-01-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 03:10:02PM +0900, Jungshik Shin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 20 lines which said: I was a bit surprised to find that Python was listed as using UTF-16 (for the internal representation) Indeed, this is wrong, it is a compilation option. Here is the output of

Re: Python and Unicode (was Re: Three new Technical Notes posted)

2004-01-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:04:33PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 20 lines which said: ~/tmp/python2.3 % ./configure --help | grep -i unicode --enable-unicode[=ucs[24]] Enable Unicode strings (default is yes) I'm more confused

RE: Python and Unicode (was Re: Three new Technical Notes posted)

2004-01-26 Thread jarkko.hietaniemi
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 03:10:02PM +0900, Jungshik Shin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 20 lines which said: I was a bit surprised to find that Python was listed as using UTF-16 (for the internal representation) Indeed, this is wrong, it is a compilation option. Here is the

Re: Python and Unicode (was Re: Three new Technical Notes posted)

2004-01-26 Thread Markus Scherer
Thanks for the information. I am collecting material for a second version of the TN. markus

Python and Unicode (was Re: Three new Technical Notes posted)

2004-01-24 Thread Jungshik Shin
Rick McGowan wrote: #12 UTF-16 for Processing by Markus Scherer I was a bit surprised to find that Python was listed as using UTF-16 (for the internal representation) with the only reference to it being an unofficial write-up. Markus may not have had a chance to take a look at two

Three new Technical Notes posted

2004-01-23 Thread Rick McGowan
Three new Unicode Technical Notes are now available on the Unicode website. The main Tech Notes page is here: http://www.unicode.org/notes/ The new notes are: #11 Representing Myanmar in Unicode: Details and Examples by Martin Hosken Maung Tuntunlwin #12 UTF-16 for

Re: Three new Technical Notes posted

2004-01-23 Thread D. Starner
#12 UTF-16 for Processing by Markus Scherer This is incorrect in saying that Ada uses UTF-16. It supports UCS-2 only. The text of the standard says: The predefined type Wide_Character is a character type whose values correspond to the 65536 code positions of the ISO 10646 Basic

Re: Three new Technical Notes posted - Ada UTF-16

2004-01-23 Thread Markus Scherer
D. Starner wrote: #12 UTF-16 for Processing This is incorrect in saying that Ada uses UTF-16. It supports UCS-2 only. The text of the standard says: The predefined type Wide_Character is a character type whose values correspond to the 65536 code positions of the ISO 10646 Basic Multilingual