> On 21 May 2020, at 15:45, Alex Hall <alex.moj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Many (probably most) people are going to come across a unicode symbol having > previously only encountered ASCII symbols and probably thinking that was the > only option. That includes all currently experienced Python programmers who > aren't up to date on the latest news, and all beginners who learned using > anything but the most up to date material. Even after this feature has been > around for a while, many (most?) new learning materials will not include > unicode symbols because authors don't want to go through the extra effort to > write those symbols.
I’m having a hard time with statements like > Many (probably most) people are going to come across a unicode symbol having > previously only encountered ASCII symbols clearly the experienced Python programmers are not the main target here our 7-year old schoolboys are used to typing é's and ç and ü’s and À’s, and this is Europe, not China, so... what was the point of defining unicode in the first place then ? _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/XGR2S56YB6JCZ7LE5PBGWFBZAN62HDKP/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
