Well despite all my rantings over Unicode i highly doubt Guido will remove it from Python or any other language devs will follow suit. As i pointed out the real issue is not so much a Unicode problem (which is just a monkey patch) but stems from the multi-language problem.
I think a correlation can be drawn between the current state of the world now, and the state of programming *pre* OOP. A lot of duplicate natural languages are spread out every where like some noob's spaghetti code. There is no intelligent all encompassing system to reign in this unorganization. We need an intelligent object model (universal language) to reign in this madness. We must wrap up the loose ends here so we can spend more time on real problems and less time on the remedial work of duplicating code (leaning multi-lang's) and debugging code (miscommunication and misunderstandings between multi-lang users). How many countless years are wasted on humans learning multiple languages just so we can communicate? How many advancements in medicine, physics, mathematics, blah, are we pushing further down the road due to wasted time and energy? But this same problem also extends into monies, nation states, units of measure, etc. Until this multiplicity is reigned in, programmers will suffer the agony of Unicode. Travelers to foreign lands will need to exchange their monies And yes, *even* mechanic's will need to carry around a set of metric and standard wrenches in their toolboxes. What a shame :-( -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
