Re: [Pyobjc-dev] strings returned from ObjC are now unicode?

[Chris R. <cp...@em...>]

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 06:40  AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> On Sunday, Feb 9, 2003, at 09:23 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
> wrote:
>
>> Chris Ryland wrote:
>>
>>> The latest CVS seems to return unicode strings from objc
>>> string-producing calls.
>>>
>>> Is that the final decision about this hotly-debated topic?
> Converting NSStrings to unicode was only a sidetrack of the string 
> related discussions ;-).
>>
>> I'm not sure it's final, but is it a problem for you? NSStrings can
>> always contain unicode so I think it's a good signal to the user (of
>> PyObjC ;-) to always return unicode strings.
>
> This is partially because I was lazy and only subclassed 
> __builtin__.unicode, but mostly because NSStrings are unicode strings. 
> Unless returning unicode strings proves to be a real problem I'd like 
> to keep it this way (if you want a string you can always do the 
> conversion yourself).

I'm afraid I'm not experienced enough with Python to know whether this 
would be a problem in the long term, but it shouldn't, in theory (let's 
hope Python's Unicode support is robust enough ;-), and it's the right 
reflection of the NSString reality, as you say.

Cheers!
--Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com