Re: [tlug] ruby and python in Japan

["Guillaume Proux" <gproux@??>]

Hello Brett,

On 2/27/07, Brett Robson <b-robson@??> wrote:
> I haven't had to deal with Japanese in PHP yet, but my understanding is
> that PHP doesn't support Unicode and apparently Python does. Does anyone
> have experience with Japanese programming in PHP or Python?

Regarding python, there has been native support for unicode strings
from version 2.0 or so.
It means that you can take a byte stream and decode it into a unicode
string... or you can take a unicode string and encode it into one of
the common text encoding such as utf-8, sjis, euc-jp etc.

Maybe this is obvious, but this is your responsibility as a programmer
to check your input (is it euc-jp, utf-8, utf-16 encoded string), turn
that into a unicode string for processing  (decode) (including regular
expression and the like) and then when returning the result (to the
screen, printer, file, socket etc...) to encode the result in the
encoding expected by the API.

I would say that unicode support (hence Japanese support) is
straightforward enough in python it never gives any pain.

Have fun.

Regards,

Guillaume