On 10 July 2018 at 08:57, Pander <pander@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Dear all,
Who might also be interested in setting up a project that supports localization for Unicode block description and character description.
Translations are available from https://github.com/unicode-table/unicode-table-data/tree/master/loc If possible, use a gettext approach similar to https://pypi.org/project/pycountry/
Implementing this feature will allow users to read Unicode descriptions in their own language, other than English.
Is this a Unicode Consortium standard, or a 3rd party project? The website wasn't completely clear on the matter, but there's nothing I could find on the Unicode website about translations of the standard name (there's also nothing that specifically explains the choice to use English for the standard names...). If it's not part of the standard, then there's an argument that the Python implementation of this should also be a 3rd party package, rather than being in the stdlib. Is this feature available on PyPI at the moment? Also, would this not lead to non-English speakers expecting that the localised names would work in "\N{...}" notation? Paul