On Friday, July 14, 2017 at 12:43:50 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > Before you answer, does your answer apply to Arabic and > Thai as well as Western European languages?
I find it interesting that those who bellyache the loudest about the "inclusivity of regional charator encodings" never dabble much outside their _own_ basic English set. For instance: I never hear Chinese or eastern Europeans bellyaching about how ASCII forced them to use a standard keyboard and denied them the "gawd given right" to become an amatuer space cadet[1]! Nope, they just learn English and move on. > [...] > > As for the legacy encodings: > > - they're not 7-bit clean, except for ASCII; > > - some of them are variable-width; > > - none of them support the full range of Unicode, so they > aren't universal character sets; > > - in other words, you either resign yourself to being > unable to exchange documents with other people, resign > yourself to dealing with moji-bake, or invent some complex > and non-backwards-compatible in-band mechanism for > switching charsets; > > - they suffer from the exact same problems as Unicode > regarding the distinction between code points and > graphemes; > > - so not only do they lack the advantages of Unicode, but > they have even more disadvantages. Thanks for finally admitting that Unicode is not the cure all that you unicode cultist make it out to be. [1] Possibly with the exception of Xan Lee. ;-). BTW, what happened to the old chap? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
