On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:07 AM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 10, 8:32 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> >> wrote: >> > On 5/10/2013 11:06 AM, jmfauth wrote: >> >> >> On 8 mai, 15:19, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Apropos to any of the myriad unicode threads that have been going on >> >>> recently: >> >> >>>http://xkcd.com/1209/ >> >> >> ------ >> >> >> This reflects a lack of understanding of Unicode. >> >> >> jmf >> >> > And this reflects a lack of a sense of humor. :) >> >> Isn't that a crime in the UK? >> >> ChrisA > > The problem with English humour (as against standard humor) is that > its not unicode compliant
Unicode humour was carefully laid out to incorporate English humour. In fact, if you use the standard variable-length-joke encoding, it's possible for a Unicode joke to be decoded as if it were an English joke, without any actual knowledge of Unicode. Unfortunately, this can result in non-compliant English humour publishers producing jokes that come out as gibberish in the rest of the world. Fortunately, we then get to laugh at them. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
