Re: unicode in PSP versus handlers

[Graham Dumpleton <gr...@dscpl.com.au>]

On 12/08/2006, at 11:39 AM, Earle Ady wrote:

>
> So I wrote a simple mod_python handler and my unicode issues were  
> resolved.
>
> The problem appears to be that using PSP with unicode isn't going  
> to get you very
> far because Flex itself doesnt support unicode.... from what I can  
> tell this far...
>
> This is going to be a big problem for people writing large PSP  
> implementations.
>
> Thanks again.
> ----
> Earle W. Ady  ::  Chief Technology Officer  ::  Blue Lava Technologies
> earle at bluelavatech dot com  ::  +1 310-913-0747 vox  ::   
> earleady aim

Please keep any discussion on the mailing list. Have sent this back  
to the
python-dev list since that is where you asked your original question and
perhaps someone else can guide you about whether PSP and Unicode
can be used together as I don't really know.

Graham

Re: unicode in PSP versus handlers

[Jim Gallacher <jp...@jgassociates.ca>]

Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> 
> On 12/08/2006, at 11:39 AM, Earle Ady wrote:
> 
>>
>> So I wrote a simple mod_python handler and my unicode issues were
>> resolved.
>>
>> The problem appears to be that using PSP with unicode isn't going to
>> get you very
>> far because Flex itself doesnt support unicode.... from what I can
>> tell this far...
>>
>> This is going to be a big problem for people writing large PSP
>> implementations.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>> ----
>> Earle W. Ady  ::  Chief Technology Officer  ::  Blue Lava Technologies
>> earle at bluelavatech dot com  ::  +1 310-913-0747 vox  ::  earleady aim
> 
> Please keep any discussion on the mailing list. Have sent this back to the
> python-dev list since that is where you asked your original question and
> perhaps someone else can guide you about whether PSP and Unicode
> can be used together as I don't really know.
> 
> Graham

I'm not sure which list this discussion will end up on, but Earle should
take a look at this thread in mod_python archive:
http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2006-February/020223.html

Ultimately it looks like a limitation of flex, so we have have 3 choices:

1. Find another lexer that supports Unicode.
2. Fix Flex to support Unicode ourselves. (Haha... not likely).
3. Re-write the psp parser in pure python as per Nicolas' suggestion in
the above quoted thread.
4. Ignore the whole thing and hope this Unicode thing is just a fad and
will soon go away. ;)

Perhaps we can refactor psp to use a parser plugin? Then users would
have a choice between py_psp_parser (Unicode but slower) and
c_psp_parser (fast but no Unicode).

Jim