[Python-Dev] Unicode Proposal: Version 0.8

[M.-A. Lemburg]

FYI, I've uploaded a new version of the proposal which includes
the encodings package, definition of the 'raw unicode escape'
encoding (available via e.g. ur""), Unicode format strings and
a new method .breaklines().

The latest version of the proposal is available at:

        http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/unicode-proposal.txt

Older versions are available as:

        http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/unicode-proposal-X.X.txt

Some POD (points of discussion) that are still open:

· Stream readers:

  What about .readline(), .readlines() ? These could be implemented
  using .read() as generic functions instead of requiring their
  implementation by all codecs. Also see Line Breaks.

· Python interface for the Unicode property database

· What other special Unicode formatting characters should be
  enhanced to work with Unicode input ? Currently only the
  following special semantics are defined:

    u"%s %s" % (u"abc", "abc") should return u"abc abc".


Pretty quiet around here lately...
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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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