[Guido and /F]
Unicode
What is the status of /F's latest attempts?
most of the code is written and tested; the API still needs some cleaning up. I also have a few patches and other contributions in my inbox that I gotta look into...
Im one of those contributors :-) I have made changes to the Win32 extensions that allows it to use /F's type instead of its own built-in Unicode type. Further, the Windows CE port of these extensions actually enables this - so we have some code actively using it. However, this still doesnt give me anything more than I had before. We need at least _some_ level of integration of this type into Python. The key areas to me are: * PyArg_ParseTuple and Py_BuildValue - Seems OK we use the "u" format character analogous to "s". We havent thought of a "z" equivilent. This is fairly easy. * Some way for these functions to auto-convert. Eg, when the user passes an 8bit string object, but the C side of the world wants a Unicode string. This is harder, as an extra memory buffer for the conversion is needed. This second problem is, to me, the next stumbling block. When we sort these out, I feel we would have the start of a good platform to start experimenting. Mark.