{"id":1750,"date":"2008-07-04T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2008-08-03T14:28:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T18:28:39","slug":"unicode-in-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/04\/unicode-in-python\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Unicode in Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmlenz.net\/archives\/2008\/07\/the-truth-about-unicode-in-python\">Christopher Lenz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.cmlenz.net\/archives\/2008\/07\/the-truth-about-unicode-in-python\">\n<p>The unicode support in Python is generally considered to be pretty good. And in comparison to many other languages, it&rsquo;s good indeed.<\/p>\n<p>But compared to what is provided by the <a href=\"http:\/\/icu-project.org\/\">International Components for Unicode<\/a> (ICU) project, there&rsquo;s also a lot missing, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmlenz.net\/archives\/2008\/07\/the-truth-about-unicode-in-python#collation\">collation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmlenz.net\/archives\/2008\/07\/the-truth-about-unicode-in-python#case-conversion\">special case conversions<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmlenz.net\/archives\/2008\/07\/the-truth-about-unicode-in-python#regular-expressions\">regular expressions<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmlenz.net\/archives\/2008\/07\/the-truth-about-unicode-in-python#text-segmentation\">text segmentation<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmlenz.net\/archives\/2008\/07\/the-truth-about-unicode-in-python#bidi-text\">bidirectional text handling<\/a>. Not to mention extensive support for locale-specific formatting of dates and numbers and time calculations with different calendars.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Lenz: The unicode support in Python is generally considered to be pretty good. And in comparison to many other languages, it&rsquo;s good indeed. But compared to what is provided by the International Components for Unicode (ICU) project, there&rsquo;s also a lot missing, including collation, special case conversions, regular expressions, text segmentation, and bidirectional text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}