[IPython-dev] Should we fix this bug before 0.10?

[Laurent Dufréchou]

Just in case you haven't seen this too:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/290677

It is exactly the same issue. If we'll be able to find a clean way to solve
it we close two bug report ;)
(and open 10 new ;_; ?)

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Fernando Perez [mailto:fperez.net at gmail.com]
> Envoyé : mardi 17 mars 2009 21:24
> À : Laurent Dufrechou
> Cc : IPython Development list
> Objet : Re: [IPython-dev] Should we fix this bug before 0.10?
> 
> 2009/3/17 Laurent Dufrechou <laurent.dufrechou at gmail.com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Reviewing bugs, i’ve seen this one that has been shipped with a
> potential
> > patch.
> >
> > Do one specialist see any bad things in the patch?
> >
> >
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339642
> 
> For those not subscribed to the bug, here's what I said there:
> 
> 
> That's indeed a bug, but the patch is removing a line that was put in
> there explicitly for some reason.  So what I'd like to have, before
> committing this, is a set of tests in a file named test_unicode.py,
> that encapsulates all of the recent unicode work.
> 
> Unfortunately a lot of these unicode fixes have been made in a
> completely ad-hoc manner, as people report problems, but we don't have
> a centralized list of cases to check against.  His may be a reasonable
> fix, for all I know, but I'm afraid that if we apply it we'll get back
> 10 old bugs again.  I don't know, maybe not, but there's simply no way
> to be sure.
> 
> I'm one of the most ignorant of our bunch in unicode issues,
> blissfully living in the stupidity of the ascii world.  It would be
> great if one of us who knows more about this stuff could at least
> write a set of simple unicode tests that catch many of the recently
> reported encoding problems.  Jorgen, Ville, any chance you guys could
> take this up at some point?  You know about it a lot more than I do...