Your Name Is Invalid!
summary
Explains why names fail: bytes vs str and how encode/decode and errors='replace' turn Š into ?; shows Python’s unicodedata for categories and casefold/normalize, demonstrates Turkish I and the uppercase ſS pitfalls, and shows combining marks breaking equality and sorting. Recommends convert bytes→str early, str→bytes late, avoid process-wide locale and use ICU (or pyuca caveats) for proper collation, and use regex \p{L} to match real letters.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:26Welcome
- 4:28Strings and bytes
- 6:33Other encodings
- 8:13Packages
- 10:02Other companies
- 10:49What is a letter
- 12:25Case folding
- 16:13Sorting
- 18:19Locale
- 19:36Regular Expressions
- 20:44Names
- 21:45Full Name
- 22:28Stop words
- 23:03Transcriptions
- 24:47Places
- 26:57Outro
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