[Python-Dev] Normalizing unicode? (was: Re: test_unicode_file failing on Mac OS X) (original) (raw)

Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Dec 10 12:43:36 EST 2003

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> (or we could just leave things as they are now, and force people to do > any normalization themselves. :) )

Do we even have normalization code in core Python?

Yes, in unicodedata.normalize, since 2.3.

I agree that having == operate as if strings where normalized is undesirable.

Regards, Martin

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