On 27 October 2016 at 01:13, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 03:37:54AM +0200, Mikhail V wrote: > >> Extended ASCII > > There are over 200 different, mutually incompatible, so-called > "extended ASCII" code pages and encodings. > > And of course it is ludicruous to think that you can fit all the world's > characters into only 8-bits. There are more than 40,000 just from China > alone, which makes it impossible to fit into 16-bits. > > >> So we all must repent now and get back to 8-bit charcters. > > Please stop wasting everyone's time trying to set the clock back to the > 1980s.
In 1980 I was not even born. Would be an intersting experience to set the clock to the time where you did not exist 8-\. And what is so bad in having, say 2 tables: 1) what is now considered as standard unicode 2) a table with characters that are reasonably valuable and cover 99% of all programming, communuication and typography in latin script ??? And where did I say I want to fit all possible chars in 8-bit? All possible chars = infinite amount of chars. Mikhail _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
