>>> Roll on Python 3 when us English speakers can forget about Unicode >>> again without hurting anyone ;)>> >> That's what you think! ;-) > >it still has to interface with the outside world, where input may be >ASCII, Latin1, utf-8 and God knows what else. I
Well I did spend some time recently converting transcriptions of ancient texts; since different universities used different fonts, each with a different encoding, going from various legacy fonts to Unicode does make things a lot easier. I was doing that in an (unholy) mix of Bash and Java though, in Java it is much simpler than Python 2, so I was hoping with Python 3, at least within Python applications, everything should be at least that simple. I use high-level programming languages because I don't want to think about such things, some smart C hacker needs to fix them for me :-) > Apparently it's causing a lot of confusion in the US, but they still > haven't update their paper sizes to something sensible. We are not much more ahead, Birmingham Fruit market is still in pounds and ounces rather than kilos; and on the bus timetables they have explanations of how the 24 hour clock works, presumably to stop people waiting for a 10 o clock bus at 21:50. At least us not being in the Euro, often a personal inconvenience to me, has had a small benefit; the collapse of the pound means it will be even cheaper for continental Euro holding Pythonistas to come to Europython. Unless the Euro collapses as well by the summer. Perhaps we should all change our money into Norwegian Kroner and wear them on our EuroPython lanyards. Best Wishes, Zeth _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
