Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Do you do any of the user education *about codec use* that you > recommend? The people I try to teach about coding invariably find it > difficult to understand. The problem is that the near-universal > intuition is that for "human-usable text" is pretty much anything *but > Unicode* will do.
It really is a matter of education. For the first time in my career, I have been teaching the first-semester programming course, and I was happy to see that the text book already has a section on text and Unicode (actually, I selected the text book also based on whether there was good discussion of that aspect). So I spent quite some time with data representation (integrals, floats, characters), and I hope that the students now "got it". If they didn't learn it that way in the first semester (or already got mis-educated in highschool), it will be very hard for them to relearn. So I expect that it will take a decade or two until this all is common knowledge. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
