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More Unicode corrections from MAL to match a post-2.2a1 change
Mention additional new imaplib.py features
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Python's Unicode support has been enhanced a bit in 2.2. Unicode
! strings are usually stored as UTF-16, as 16-bit unsigned integers.
Python 2.2 can also be compiled to use UCS-4, 32-bit unsigned
integers, as its internal encoding by supplying
\longprogramopt{enable-unicode=ucs4} to the configure script. When
built to use UCS-4 (a ``wide Python''), the interpreter can natively
! handle Unicode characters from U+000000 to U+110000. The range of
! legal values for the \function{unichr()} function has been expanded;
! it used to only accept values up to 65535, but in 2.2 will accept
! values from 0 to 0x110000. Using a ``narrow Python'', an interpreter
! compiled to use UTF-16, values greater than 65535 will result in
! \function{unichr()} returning a string of length 2:
- \begin{verbatim}
- >>> s = unichr(65536)
- >>> s
- u'\ud800\udc00'
- >>> len(s)
- 2
- \end{verbatim}
-
- This possibly-confusing behaviour, breaking the intuitive invariant
- that \function{chr()} and\function{unichr()} always return strings of
- length 1, may be changed later in 2.2 depending on public reaction.
-
All this is the province of the still-unimplemented PEP 261, ``Support
for `wide' Unicode characters''; consult it for further details, and
! please offer comments and suggestions on the proposal it describes.
Another change is much simpler to explain. Since their introduction,
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Python's Unicode support has been enhanced a bit in 2.2. Unicode
! strings are usually stored as UCS-2, as 16-bit unsigned integers.
Python 2.2 can also be compiled to use UCS-4, 32-bit unsigned
integers, as its internal encoding by supplying
\longprogramopt{enable-unicode=ucs4} to the configure script. When
built to use UCS-4 (a ``wide Python''), the interpreter can natively
! handle Unicode characters from U+000000 to U+110000, so the range of
! legal values for the \function{unichr()} function is expanded
! accordingly. Using an interpreter compiled to use UCS-2 (a ``narrow
! Python''), values greater than 65535 will still cause
! \function{unichr()} to raise a \exception{ValueError} exception.
All this is the province of the still-unimplemented PEP 261, ``Support
for `wide' Unicode characters''; consult it for further details, and
! please offer comments on the PEP and on your experiences with the
! 2.2 alpha releases.
! % XXX update previous line once 2.2 reaches beta.
Another change is much simpler to explain. Since their introduction,
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contributed by Martin von L\"owis.)
! \item The \module{imaplib} module now has support for the IMAP
! NAMESPACE extension defined in \rfc{2342}. (Contributed by Michel
! Pelletier.)
\item The \module{rfc822} module's parsing of email addresses is
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contributed by Martin von L\"owis.)
! \item The \module{imaplib} module, maintained by Piers Lauder, has
! support for several new extensions: the NAMESPACE extension defined
! in \rfc{2342}, SORT, GETACL and SETACL. (Contributed by Anthony
! Baxter and Michel Pelletier.)
\item The \module{rfc822} module's parsing of email addresses is
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