[Python-Dev] Import and unicode: part two (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 24 05:07:45 CET 2011

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

"Martin v. Löwis" writes:  > Actually, as long people only involve Windows, or only involve Mac,  > it will all work just fine. It's only when they use non-Mac Unix  > (such as Linux), or try to move files across systems using sub-prime  > technology (such as your typical Windows zip utility) they will run  > into problems.

I believe that the kind of thing that Ishimoto-san has in mind is things like "smart cameras" that will upload your photos to your blog with one touch on the cameras screen and other "Web 2.0 for the rest of us" apps.  What with the popularity of Linux and *BSD for such sites, it's easy to imagine problems of the kind he describes occurring between those (which will probably be using Shift JIS in Japan) apps and the websites.

Really? I would have thought that cell phones have long been the platforms most supportive of Unicode. IIRC Nokia's Python port to S60 required Unicode strings for all system interfaces. Android, using Java, also is pretty much all Unicode inside. Am I naive to generalize from these two examples?

(This is not meant as a rhetorical question -- I may well be missing something and am genuinely curious about the answer.)

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