Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment:
After the recent discussions on python-dev I went through the Unicode howto and
fixed a few things, then I found this issue so I'm attaching the patch here.
The patch addresses mostly markup issues, but it also removes the usage of
'byte string'.
A few more things that should be done:
* clarify some more terms (e.g. codepoints, code units, characters, possibly
scalar values etc.);
* mention the differences between narrow and wide builds, including:
- a discussion about the UCS-2/UTF-16 implementation of narrow builds;
- something about surrogates and surrogate pairs;
- effects of slicing and indexing on narrow builds;
- functions/methods that (don't) accept non-BMP chars on narrow builds;
* something about Unicode supports in the re module (this probably can wait
after the 'regex' inclusion).
Also the codecs doc has a section about Unicode and encodings that might be
moved to the howto.
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assignee: georg.brandl ->
resolution: fixed ->
stage: -> commit review
versions: +Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23081/issue4153-2.diff
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