On 20 Apr 2005 10:58:35 GMT, "F. Petitjean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Python has a very good support of unicode, utf8, encodings ... But I >have some difficulties with the concepts and the vocabulary. You're not alone there. But I don't expect the docs for the Python implementation of Unicode to explain the concepts and vocabulary of Unicode. That's the job of the Unicode consortium, and they do a not-unreasonable job of it; see www.unicode.org and in particular http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html explains all the things that the Python unicodedata module is implementing. > The >documentation is not bad, but for example in reading >http://docs.python.org/lib/module-unicodedata.html >I had a long time to figure out what unicodedata.digit(unichr) would >mean, a simple example is badly lacking. > >So I wrote the following script : > [snip] > >I think that such code snippets should be included in the documentation >or in a Wiki. > Any effort should be directed (IMESHO) towards (a) keeping the URL in the Python documentation up-to-date [it's not] (b) using the *LATEST* version of the ucd file when each version of Python is released [still stuck on 3.2.0 when the current version available from Unicode.org is 4.1.0] [Exit, pursued by a bear.] [Noises off.] OK OK don't hit me, Martin, how about instructions on how to DIY, then? Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
