Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Python has two data types: str and unicode.
Python's unicode "features" are probably not really good examples
generally. Ongoing discussion in Python lists seem to indicate that
there a rather rough edges still.
> - Sam Ruby
leo
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 6:16 PM +0100 11/2/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>>
>>If it's pure binary pitch a fit.
>>If it has an encoding attached, continue,
> Yeah, that's the plan.
> I'd like to add another entry to the internal API:
>OPTIONAL_INTERNAL_EXCEPTION
> which wor
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I expect I'll put together a Unicode charset that uses ICU to do its
> thing, and go from there. We certainly need Unicode support, so it's
> not like we can't do it. (And we still don't have a better option,
> unfortunately)
ICU 3.0 should be out AFAIK.
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:33:47 -0500, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 1:16 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
>
> Making ICU optional, at least. It's too problematic on too many
> platforms, and just turns into a big headache. It seemed like a good
> idea at the time, and while it's still
On Nov 2, 2004, at 10:46 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 1:42 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
I don't care if Parrot uses ICU on any platform.
I do care that Parrot supports utf-8 on every platform.
Ah, OK. Yes, we will support all the unicode encodings, as well as the
unicode character set, on all p
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski):
> Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
>
> Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a
> binary string...
>
> What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase
> itself? (You may assume that we have strings w
At 1:42 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 1:16 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 5:43 PM + 11/2/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it operat
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 1:16 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 5:43 PM + 11/2/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it
operates
is to take the range of bytes that co
At 1:16 PM -0500 11/2/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 5:43 PM + 11/2/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it operates
is to take the range of bytes that correspond to us-ascii
At 6:16 PM +0100 11/2/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a
binary string...
What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase
itself?
I
Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 5:43 PM + 11/2/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it operates
is to take the range of bytes that correspond to us-ascii and perform a
us-ascii uppercase on them.
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
> Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a
> binary string...
> What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase
> itself?
If it's pure binary pitch a fit.
If it has a
At 5:43 PM + 11/2/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it operates
is to take the range of bytes that correspond to us-ascii and perform a
us-ascii uppercase on them. The remaining byte
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
> However, str has an upper() method defined on it. The way it operates
> is to take the range of bytes that correspond to us-ascii and perform a
> us-ascii uppercase on them. The remaining bytes are left alone.
I'd prefer parrot not t
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a binary
string...
What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase itself?
(You may assume that we have strings which are explicitly marked at
least
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a binary
string...
What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase itself?
(You may assume that we have strings which are explicitly marked at
least
At 12:11 PM -0500 11/2/04, Matt Fowles wrote:
Dan~
I vote for doing nothing in the up/down case options as those are
frequently just used to get a cannonical form for comparison.
Although I could understand an argument for throwing an exception...
People better not be using binary data as a canonic
Dan~
I vote for doing nothing in the up/down case options as those are
frequently just used to get a cannonical form for comparison.
Although I could understand an argument for throwing an exception...
Matt
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:53:08 -0500, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, here
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:53:08AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Okay, here's a question for everyone to hash out.
>
> Assuming I have a parrot string which is explicitly marked as a
> binary string...
>
> What should happen when it's told to upcase/downcase/titlecase
> itself? (You may assume t
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