[Python-3000] gettext

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu May 1 20:59:19 CEST 2008


> Are we going to want to keep the "u" variants of the gettext APIs
> around in 3.0? Also, the unicode parameters (for .install methods)
> don't make much sense in 3.0.
> 
> I don't see how we could remove them in 3.0, but perhaps rename then
> to their non-"u" variants and deprecate?

I think the new module should only support the Unicode API. gettext is
about text, i.e. character strings; there is no need for byte-oriented
APIs.

Regards,
Martin


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