[Python-Dev] Unicode
Paul Prescod
paul@prescod.net
2000年5月16日 15:36:42 -0500
"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
>> ...
>> I'd like to know whether you have an example of a real-world
> big-application problem that could not be conveniently implemented
> using the new Unicode API. For all the examples I can think where
> Unicode would matter (XML processing, CORBA wstring mapping,
> internationalized messages and GUIs), it would work just fine.
Of course an implicit behavior can never get in the way of
big-application building. The question is about principle of least
surprise, and simplicity of explanation and understanding.
I'm-told-that-even-Perl-and-C++-can-be-used-for-big-apps -ly yrs
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