I Am Worried About The Future Of Python

Re:I Am Worried About The Future Of Python by cmccabe on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @01:01AM (#4568672)

Um, UTF-8, a valid unicode encoding, handles strings with a null terminator just fine. Those who throw stones, should not live in glass houses.

Proper unicode support would include things like normalizing strings (Unicode has 4 different normal forms!) and testing for fuzzy equivalence. But last time I checked, the usual library for doing those things, libicu, was bigger than the whole Lua interpreter. So I can see why there isn't a lot of enthusiasm, especially if there isn't a real use case.

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Re:I Am Worried About The Future Of Python by est on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @08:29PM (#4578722)

yes, packing icu with every lua distribution or standalone app is bad, and we don't even need to think about OS's Unicode capabilities. So every lang deserves to be suck at unicode handling. Because, you know, ICU is big.

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