On 19/11/2017 11:20, Stephan Houben wrote: > You think that's bad? > https://github.com/reinderien/mimic/blob/master/README.md
> Abandon all hope ye who use Unicode. > > Op 19 nov. 2017 12:06 schreef "Antoine Pitrou" <solip...@pitrou.net You can get exactly the the same effect by typing command line examples into MS-Word or Outlook and letting people copy and paste to the command line, as both programs "helpfully" and erratically convert double quotes to open/close curly double quote and minus into hyphen, etc. - I have had a large number of cases where this has happened and even start many of my utilities that are deployed to others with a fix parameter issues function that undoes such substitutions in all of sys.argv just to cut down on the number of "it doesn't work" complaints. -- Steve (Gadget) Barnes Any opinions in this message are my personal opinions and do not reflect those of my employer. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
