On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > Another **Must Read** resource for unicode is: > > The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely Positively Must > Know About Unicode (No Excuses!) > > https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/
This was an enjoyable read, but did not have as much technical detail as the two videos Zach had referenced. But then the author did say "the absolute minimum ...". I will strive to avoid peeling onions on a sub! > (By the way, it is nearly 14 years later, and PHP still believes that > the world is ASCII.) I thought you must surely be engaging in hyperbole, but at http://php.net/manual/en/xml.encoding.php I found: "The default source encoding used by PHP is ISO-8859-1." > > Python 3 makes Unicode about as easy as it can get. To include a unicode > string in your source code, you just need to ensure your editor saves > the file as UTF-8, and then insert (by whatever input technology you > have) the character you want. You want a Greek pi? > > pi = "π" > > How about an Israeli sheqel? > > money = "₪1000" > > So long as your editor knows to save the file in UTF-8, it will Just > Work. So Python 3's default behavior for strings is to store them as UTF-8 encodings in both RAM and files? No funny business anywhere? Except perhaps in my Windows 7 cmd.exe and PowerShell, but that's not Python's fault. Which makes me wonder, what is my editor's default encoding/decoding? I will have to investigate! Cheers! -- boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
