[Python-3000] string module trimming (original) (raw)

Jeffrey Yasskin jyasskin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 08:19:26 CEST 2007

On 4/18/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/18/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > On 4/18/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote: > But we already went over this. There are over 40K letters in Unicode. > It simply makes no sense to have a string.letters approaching that > size.

Agreed. But there aren't 40K (alphabetic) letters in any particular locale. Most individual languages will have less than 100.

I missed the beginning of this discussion, so sorry if you've already covered this. Are you saying that in your app, just because I've set the en_US locale, I won't be able to type "こにちは"? Or that those characters won't be recognized as letters?

The Unicode character database (http://www.unicode.org/ucd/) seems like the obvious way to handle character properties if you want to get the right answers.

Namasté, Jeffrey Yasskin

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