On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > But Unicode has nothing to do with Guido, and it has existed for about 25 > years (if I recall correctly).
Depends how you measure. According to [1], the work kinda began back then (25 years ago being 1988), but it wasn't till 1991/92 that the spec was published. Also, the full Unicode range with multiple planes came about in 1996, with Unicode 2.0, so that could also be considered the beginning of Unicode. But that still means it's nearly old enough to drink, so programmers ought to be aware of it. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#History ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
