Friday, November 9, 2007

Unicode support in RPython

In the recent days we (Carl Friedrich, Anto and me) implemented native unicode support for RPython. This means that now you can write u'xxxx' directly in your RPython program, as well as unicode(some_string_variable) and most of the unicode methods should work as well. The things that don't work, are operations that require the unicode database (such as .upper() and friends) and encodings (unicode(x, encoding) for example). Right now our python interpreter does not use this at all, but that's the next step.

Cheers,
fijal
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3 comments:

  1. Miguel FilipeNovember 13, 2007 at 4:29 PM

    Hi there,
    It would be nice for the pypy site to mention this blog, or update the news section.
    I stumbled here from reading the ML.

    BTW: for when a new release?

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  2. Carl Friedrich Bolz-TereickNovember 13, 2007 at 4:55 PM

    Hi Miguel,

    the blog is still somewhat unofficial so I don't want to give it completely official status by linking it from the PyPy page. But I guess a news item makes sense.

    There are no release-plans, we will discuss it next week on the sprint.

    Cheers,

    Carl Friedrich

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2008 at 7:52 PM

    The blog is now official and posted
    on the PyPy website. The plan is to
    use it as the main channel for
    updates on what is happening.

    Jacob

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