Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: >> It looks to me as if you want to convert almost everything to docstring. >> That would have been better done with some global search/replace. > > I really think we should have done just that. We are just complicating > our life for no real benefit. What's the problem if we use unicode > capable strings to handle ascii? This is just a container. If you want > we can force them to be ascii via well placed ASSERT.
I am repeating myself: That is not the point (for me). I take the unciode conversion as a chance to get code that is easier to understand: If it is a strign I know that it is ASCII (assuming that we eliminate all utf8 strings internally). If it is a docstring I don't. >> The step >> by step conversion only makes sense if you don't do it blindly but look >> at each conversion. I already found problematic cases (e.g. where a file >> contents is interpreted as UTF8 without knowing the file encoding). > > I would have preferred the other way around. Convert everything and then > look at the remaining problems. Then I suggest that you don't get involved anymore in the converting business, that will be easier for all of us. If you run out of work you could for example fix the bidi stuff (assuming you know something about right to left languages which I am not sure if it is true). Or you could think how we could deal with different encodings for LaTeX output. Georg
