[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> * Lars Marius Garshol
> |
> | Is the plan that Python will eventually be UCS-4 only?
> 
> * mal@lemburg.com
> | 
> | 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...

Not unless someone contributes the code... we still need support for
normalization and collation.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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