[Pyobjc-dev] Re: [ pyobjc-Bugs-679748 ] NSMutableString gets converted to Python string

[Bill B. <bb...@co...>]

On Monday, Feb 3, 2003, at 15:45 US/Eastern, Just van Rossum wrote:
> Bill Bumgarner wrote:
>> - a python object that provides a character buffer style interface to
>> the contents of an NSString.
>
> How would this work for NSStrings containing unicode?

I have no clue yet.

NSString provides a rich set of API for converting from whatever the 
internal representation is to whatever Unicode representation you might 
want.   As such, it will be easy to produce a character buffer full of, 
say, UTF8 characters.

What can be done with this in the context of the Python API -- whether 
it can be wrapped into a python object that is actually useful -- 
remains to be seen.   Given that file()/open() only looks for a 
character buffer and, I believe, can handle a UTF8 path gives me hope.

b.bum