[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

Lars Marius Garshol larsga@garshol.priv.no
25 Sep 2002 17:51:16 +0200


* Lars Marius Garshol
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| Is the plan that Python will eventually be UCS-4 only?

* mal@lemburg.com
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| Eventually, yes, but this can take some time -- cheaper memory,
| faster machines, etc. For now we have the compile time option and
| since RedHat chose to activate it, there's a good chance that we'll
| get forced to do the same sooner rather than later ;-)

That's good news (both items :-). 

Of course, the abstract character issue remains. Are we likely to see
support for normalization in the Python C core any time soon?
Specifically Normalization Form D...

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