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Yet another unicode string type
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This kit contains a unicode string implementation for Python 1.5.

Enjoy /F

fredrik@pythonware.com
http://www.pythonware.com

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Copyright (c) 1999 by Fredrik Lundh

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release info
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This is the fourth development snapshot.  It contains a fairly
complete implementation of the basic unicode type, but no stream
codecs.

Comments, bug reports, and patches are welcome.  Send them to
string-sig@python.org or fredrik@pythonware.com.

Note that this is free software, with limited support.  If you need
commercial support on this module, please contact info@pythonware.com.

contents
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README		this file

unicode.txt	design notes

unicode.c	the unicode string type implementation
unicode.h	declarations for the unicode string type
unicode.dll	a prebuilt version of the string type, for Python 1.5

str2utf.c	some code to support \uXXXX syntax in Python
		strings.  see comments in the file for further
		details.

test*.py	various test scripts	
