[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database (original) (raw)

Joao S. O. Bueno jsbueno at python.org.br
Sun Nov 28 22:12:09 CET 2010

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:58:33 -0500 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: .. >> For example, >> I don't think that supporting >> >> >>> float('١٢٣٤.٥٦') >> 1234.56 >> >> is more important than to assure users that once their program >> accepted some text as a number, they can assume that the text is >> ASCII. > > Why would they assume the text is ASCII?

def deposit(self, amountstr): self.balance += float(amountstr) auditlog("Deposited: " + amountstr) Auditor: $ cat numbered-account.log Deposited: ?????.?? I'm not sure that's how banking applications are written :) +1 for this being bogus - I see no correlation whatsoever in numbers inside unicode having to be "ASCII" if we have surpassed all technical barriers for needing to behave like that. ASCII is an oversimplification of human communication needed for computing devices not complex enough to represent it fully.

Let novice C programmers in English speaking countries deal with the fact that 1 character is not 1 byte anymore. We are past this point.

js -><-

Antoine.

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