On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > This simply shows bias to the English speaking world, as does Python > unicode, at least in 3.3+. I wouldn't mind betting that other languages > can't cope, e.g. can 3.3+ manage the top secret joke that's so deadly even > the Germans die laughing?
It most certainly can. However, the space it takes up depends on how you encode the combining characters; for maximal efficiency of transmission, you would want to use the fully-composed version, because like music, if it isn't composed, it's decomposed. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
