[Python-3000] gettext

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu May 1 21:15:59 CEST 2008


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On May 1, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> 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.

Sounds like you agree that we should just rename the u-variants and  
forget about deprecation, correct?

- -Barry

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