[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jack Jansen wrote:
> 
> > > [MAL, on Unicode chr() and ord()
> > > > ...
> > > > Because unichr() will always have to return Unicode objects. You don't
> > > > want chr(i) to return Unicode for i>255 and strings for i<256.
> 
> > > > OTOH, ord() could probably be extended to also work on Unicode objects.
> 
> > Fine. So I'll drop the uniord() API and extend ord() instead.
> 
> Hmm, then wouldn't it be more logical to drop unichr() too, but add an
> optional parameter to chr() to specify what sort of a string you want? The
> type-object of a unicode string comes to mind...

Like:

import types
uc = chr(12,types.UnicodeType)

... looks overly complicated, IMHO.

uc = unichr(12)

and

u = unicode('abc')

look pretty intuitive to me.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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