> 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 ?

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