On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:09:06 AM UTC+5:30, Mark H. Harris wrote: > On 5/13/14 12:10 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > I think the most helpful way forward is to accept two things: > > a. Unicode is a headache > > b. No-unicode is a non-option > > > QOTW (so far...)
I said that getting unicode right straight off is unrealistic. I should have added this: Armin makes a (sarcastic?) dig about the fact that python (3) goofs because its mismatched with the assumptions of unix. | UNIX is bytes, has been defined that way and will always be that way. To | Unicode on UNIX is only madness if you force it on everything. But that's not | how Unicode on UNIX works. UNIX does not have a distinction between unicode | and byte APIs. They are one and the same which makes them easy to deal with.] | Python 3 takes a very difference stance on Unicode than UNIX does. Python 3 | says: everything is Unicode ... This may be right... Or it may be the other way round as I claim at http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html At this point I dont believe that anyone is very clear what is the right way and and wrong way -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
