New approach - find split points based on Unicode categories.

[python-collate.git] / collate / icu / __init__.py

diff --git a/collate/icu/__init__.py b/collate/icu/__init__.py
index 6f9647e..892b8a1 100644 (file)
--- a/collate/icu/__init__.py
+++ b/collate/icu/__init__.py
@@ -36,11 +36,6 @@ class Collator(collate._abcollator.Collator):
             # so this is a harmless error.
             self._breaker = _icu.WordBreaker("root")
 
-    def words(self, string):
-        if isinstance(string, str):
-            string = string.decode(self.encoding, 'replace')
-        return filter(lambda u: not u.isspace(), self._breaker.words(string))
-
     def key(self, string):
         """Sort key for a string.