[Python-Dev] ICU

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 05:45:26 CET 2010


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> Oh, about ICU:
>
>> > Actually, I remember you saying that locale should ideally be replaced
>> > with a wrapper around the ICU library.
>>
>> By that, I stand - however, I have given up the hope that this will
>> happen anytime soon.
>
> Perhaps this could be made a GSOC topic.
>

Incidentally, this may also address another Python's Achilles' heel:
the timezone support.

http://icu-project.org/download/icutzu.html


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