Changes between Version 57 and Version 58 of DeveloperGuidelines/CodeConventions

Timestamp:

01/26/16 12:03:08 (9 years ago)

Author:

Dominic König

Comment:

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DeveloperGuidelines/CodeConventions

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 7) All code is utf-8 encoded, so that all string constants are automatically utf-8 encoded str. We do not use u"..." for string constants.
 
-8) Note that str.lower() and str.upper() do not work correctly for some unicode characters (e.g. "Ẽ".lower() gives "Ẽ" again - instead of "ẽ"). For correct behavior, we must convert into unicode first, using s3_unicode:
+8) Note that, in Python 2, str.lower() and str.upper() may not work correctly for some unicode characters (e.g. "Ẽ".lower() gives "Ẽ" again - instead of "ẽ"), depending on the server locale. To ensure correct behavior, we must convert into unicode first, using s3_unicode:
 
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