[Python-Dev] Re: other "magic strings" issues
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Nov 11 15:21:40 EST 2003
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> How big would ICU binaries for Windows be? I don't mind bloating the
> Windows installer by a few MB. As long as it doesn't have to land in
> CVS...
See
ftp://www-126.ibm.com/pub/icu/2.6.1/icu-2.6.1.zip
I haven't actually downloaded it because of size (9MB); the zip file
may contain header files and the like which we shouldn't ship.
>>More realistically, we could expose wcscoll(3) where available,
[...]
> I don't know what that is, but if you recommend it, I support it.
See
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/wcscoll.html
It goes along with wcsxfrm and wcscmp for efficient collation,
and parallels strcoll, strxfrm, and strcmp for wchar_t.
Regards,
Martin
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