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guido at python Aug 21, 2008, 1:35 PM Views: 3719 Permalink Unicode 5.1.0 I was just paid a visit by my Google colleague Mark Davis, co-founder of the Unicode project and the president of the Unicode Consortium. He would like to see improved Unicode support for Python. (Well duh. :-) On his list of top priorities are: 1. Upgrade the unicodata module to the Unicode 5.1.0 standard 2. Extende the unicodedata module with some additional properties 3. Add support for Unicode properties to the regex syntax, including Boolean combinations I've tried to explain our release schedule and no-new-features-in-point-releases policies to him, and he understands that it's too late to add #2 or #3 to 2.6 and 3.0, and that these will have to wait for 2.7 and 3.1, respectively. However, I've kept the door sligthtly ajar for adding #1 -- it can't be too much work and it can't have too much impact. Or can it? I don't actually know what the impact would be, so I'd like some impact from developers who are closer to the origins of the unicodedata module. The two, quite separate, questions, then, are (a) how much work would it be to upgrade to version 5.1.0 of the database; and (b) would it be acceptable to do this post-beta3 (but before rc1). If the answer to (b) is positive, Google can help with (a). In general, Google has needs in this area that can't wait for 2.7/3.1, so what we may end up doing is create internal implementations of all three features (compatible with Python 2.4 and later), publish them as open source on Google Code, and fold them into core Python at the first opportunity, which would likely be 2.7 and 3.1. Comments? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev[at]python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/list-python-dev%40lists.gossamer-threads.com

Subject User Time Unicode 5.1.0 guido at python Aug 21, 2008, 1:35 PM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 mal at egenix Aug 21, 2008, 2:26 PM         Re: Unicode 5.1.0 guido at python Aug 21, 2008, 6:25 PM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 tjreedy at udel Aug 21, 2008, 3:30 PM         Re: Unicode 5.1.0 barry at python Aug 25, 2008, 10:34 AM             Re: Unicode 5.1.0 musiccomposition at gmail Aug 25, 2008, 10:52 AM             Re: Unicode 5.1.0 fredrik at pythonware Aug 25, 2008, 10:53 AM                 Re: Unicode 5.1.0 barry at python Aug 25, 2008, 12:04 PM                     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 fredrik at pythonware Aug 25, 2008, 12:17 PM                         Re: Unicode 5.1.0 barry at python Aug 25, 2008, 12:36 PM             Re: Unicode 5.1.0 mal at egenix Aug 25, 2008, 11:15 AM                 Re: Unicode 5.1.0 barry at python Aug 25, 2008, 12:07 PM             Re: Unicode 5.1.0 steve at holdenweb Aug 25, 2008, 3:55 PM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 fredrik at pythonware Aug 22, 2008, 3:47 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 facundobatista at gmail Aug 22, 2008, 6:42 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 solipsis at pitrou Aug 22, 2008, 7:54 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 guido at python Aug 22, 2008, 7:59 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 guido at python Aug 22, 2008, 8:05 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 fredrik at pythonware Aug 22, 2008, 8:13 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 fredrik at pythonware Aug 22, 2008, 8:15 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 guido at python Aug 22, 2008, 9:12 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 guido at python Aug 22, 2008, 9:51 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 amk at amk Aug 22, 2008, 9:52 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 martin at v Aug 24, 2008, 12:35 PM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 martin at v Aug 24, 2008, 12:40 PM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 martin at v Aug 24, 2008, 12:44 PM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 barry at python Aug 25, 2008, 5:50 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 ismail at namtrac Aug 25, 2008, 6:43 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 mal at egenix Aug 25, 2008, 7:49 AM         Re: Unicode 5.1.0 guido at python Aug 25, 2008, 9:04 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 tjreedy at udel Aug 25, 2008, 10:13 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 guido at python Aug 25, 2008, 10:56 AM     Re: Unicode 5.1.0 brett at python Aug 25, 2008, 11:16 AM

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