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Greetings!
Although python has
had full unicode support for filenames for a long time on selected platforms
(e.g. Windows), there is one glaring deficiency: It cannot import from
paths containing unicode. I�ve tried creating folders with chinese
characters and adding them to path, to no avail.
The standard install
path in chinese distributions can be with a non-ANSI path, and installing an
embedded python application there will break it. At the moment this is
hindering the installation of EVE on Chinese internet-caf�s.
A cursory glance at
import.c shows that the import mechanism is fairly complicated, and riddled with
"char \*path" thingies, and manual string arithmetic. Do you have any
suggestions on a clean way to unicodify the import
mechanism?
A completely
parallel implementation on the sys.path\[i\] level?
Are there other
platforms beside Windows that would profit from this?
Cheers,
Kristj�n