On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote: > On 2016-03-10, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Jon Ribbens >><jon+use...@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote: >>> On 2016-03-09, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Then *get interested*. Unicode is the only way that you'll ever not be >>>> parochially bound to a subset of English - or, worse, bound to an >>>> arbitrary eight-bit codepage that you don't even control the choice >>>> of, such that your program behaves differently on different systems. >>>> FIX YOUR LANGUAGE and support non-English text. >>> >>> You can't even support English text properly without Unicode. >>> Plenty of English words use non-ASCII characters: >>> café, crêpe, façade, naïve, dæmon, etc. >> >> Like I said, a subset of English. > > I profusely apologise for so rudely agreeing with you.
I snapped off a very quick response as I was about to meet with a student, but let me assure you that I was not offended in any way by your post. You basically gave examples of exactly the problem that I alluded to with the words "a subset of", and it's an important enough consideration that it's well worth having the examples there. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
