Hi, 2008/12/19 Zeth <[email protected]>: >>>> 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;
Oh good, that restores my faith in the ability of the British to resist the bureaucrats. You can still (just about) ask for a demi-livre du beurre in some parts of France, thirty years ago it was still common, how many years after Bonaparte has his way? > 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. Well that must be for you young people, beacuse the older generation who did National Service know all about the 24 hour clock. > 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. Well, that is controlled by the Establishment figures (eg Mr Redwood) who make money out of currency speculation. Vote them all out. John -- _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
