[XML-SIG] Developer's Day

[Fredrik Lundh]

(I'm currently not on this list, so it took me
a while to notice this post.  please cc any
followups to me):

Walter Doerwald wrote:
> >     the "SXP" tradeoff (this is our upcoming sgmlop
> >     replacement) is "like sgmlop, but usually faster,
> >     fully supports utf-8 and unicode, and is written
>                                ^^^^^^^
> Does this mean UCS-2/UTF-16 encoded unicode like
> NotePad does on WinNT?

yes -- thanks to the new unicode string type that
is currently being added to the python core.  the
SXP library relies on this and the new unicode reg-
exp engine (SRE).

> >     in pure python 1.6 (!)"
>
> When?

afaik, the unicode and SRE sources will appear in
the CVS version early next year.  SXP should be
available soon thereafter.

as for when there will be an official 1.6 release,
your guess is as good as mine ;-)

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