FYI, I've uploaded a new version of the proposal which includes the encodings package, definition of the 'raw unicode escape' encoding (available via e.g. ur""), Unicode format strings and a new method .breaklines(). The latest version of the proposal is available at: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/unicode-proposal.txt Older versions are available as: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/unicode-proposal-X.X.txt Some POD (points of discussion) that are still open: · Stream readers: What about .readline(), .readlines() ? These could be implemented using .read() as generic functions instead of requiring their implementation by all codecs. Also see Line Breaks. · Python interface for the Unicode property database · What other special Unicode formatting characters should be enhanced to work with Unicode input ? Currently only the following special semantics are defined: u"%s %s" % (u"abc", "abc") should return u"abc abc". Pretty quiet around here lately... -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Y2000: 38 days left Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/