TEP 001: Fully switch to unicode (was: [Thuban-list] Problem with Thuban in Ubuntu)

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 11:01, Didrik Pinte wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:46:38 +0200, "Bernhard Reiter"
>
> <bernhard at intevation.de> said:
> > Thuban Enhancement Proposal 001:
> > (20070425ber)
> > Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>
> >
> > Fully switch to use of python unicode objects internally.
> > Throw out special translation modes for other internal encodings
> > like utf8 or latin1.

> > Please all comment.
> > Bernhard
>
> This sounds a very good idea. Especially that now we have correct
> support of
> unicode in pyshapelib thanks to Bram.

Does this mean we need to couple this with using the new pyshapelib?
Just curious. Decoupled steps are always good. ;)

If you want to start doing this, check the 
Doc/technotes/string_representation.txt
add some code to use "unicode" and try running it with an non-English 
locale. 

Bernhard
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