On Fri, Oct 14, 2016, at 01:54, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Good luck with that last one. Even if you could convince the Chinese and > Japanese to swap to ASCII, I'd like to see you pry the emoji out of the > young folk's phones.
This is actually probably the one part of this proposal that *is* feasible. While encoding emoji as a single character each makes sense for a culture that already uses thousands of characters; before they existed the English-speaking software industry already had several competing "standards" emerging for encoding them as sequences of ASCII characters. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
