On Mar 31, 5:55 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: <snipped jmf's broken-record whine>
> I'm feeling very sorry for this horse, it's been flogged so often it's > down to bare bones. While I am now joining the camp of those fed up with jmf's whining, I do wonder if we are shooting the messenger… >From a recent Roy mysqldb-unicode thread: > My unicode-fu is a bit weak. Are we looking at a Python problem, a > MySQLdb problem, or a problem with the underlying MySQL server? We've > certainly inserted utf-8 data before without any problems. It's > possible this is the first time we've tried to handle a character > outside the BMP. : : > OK, that leads to the next question. Is there anyway I can (in Python > 2.7) detect when a string is not entirely in the BMP? If I could find > all the non-BMP characters, I could replace them with U+FFFD > (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER) and life would be good (enough). Steven's: > But it means that if you're one of the 99.9% of users who mostly use > characters in the BMP, … And from http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode_astral.html > The informal name for the supplementary planes of Unicode is "astral planes", > since > (especially in the late '90s) their use seemed to be as remote as > the theosophical "great beyond". … > As of this writing for instance, Dreamweaver MX for MacOSX (which I am > currently using > to prepare this) will let you paste BMP text into its WYSIWYG window; but > pasting > Supplementary Plane text there will make it crash. So I really wonder: Is python losing more by supporting SMP with performance hit on BMP? The problem as I see it is that a choice that is sufficiently skew is no more a straightforward choice. An example will illustrate: I can choose to drive or not -- a choice. Statistics tell me that on average there are 3 fatalities every day; I am very concerned that I could get killed so I choose not to drive. Which neglects that there are a couple of million safe-drives at the same time as the '3 fatalities' [What if anything this has to do with jmf's rants I dont know because I dont know if anyone (including jmf) knows what he is ranting about. ] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
