[Python-3000] locale-aware strings ?

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Sep 1 10:01:45 CEST 2006


today's Python supports "locale aware" 8-bit strings; e.g.

    >>> import locale
    >>> "åäö".isalpha()
    False
    >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "sv_SE")
    'sv_SE'
    >>> "åäö".isalpha()
    True

to what extent should this be supported by Python 3000 ?

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