Re: Suggestion for #1602, urlify.js blocks out non-English chars

2006-07-11 Thread Andrey Golovizin
Bill de hÓra wrote: > I need to test this properly and fill in the mappings The official Cyrillic-Latin mapping could be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translit It could be like this: var RUSSIAN_MAP = { "а": "a","к": "k","х": "kh, "б": "b","л": "l","ц": "ts", "в": "v"

Re: Unicodification of Django

2006-06-28 Thread Andrey Golovizin
Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > "... with too many backwards-incompatible changes ..." -- as Hugo > points out, this will break a lot of existing code. Well, some day Django will have to switch to unicode anyway (even Python-3000 is going to use unicode strings everywhere). Right now is a good time f

Unicodification of Django

2006-06-28 Thread Andrey Golovizin
Hi, I am using Django for about half a year and it rocks. Indeed, it would rock even more if it switched from using UTF-8 bytestrings to use unicode strings everywhere. The main drawbacks of using UTF-8 strings are: - regexps won't work on utf-8 bytestrings containing non-ASCII characters; - l