On Feb 12, 10:51 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:38:37 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Everything that displays text to a human needs to translate bytes into > > glyphs, and the usual way to do this conceptually is to go via > > characters. Pretending that it's all the same thing really means > > pretending that one byte represents one character and that each > > character is depicted by one glyph. And that's doomed to failure, unless > > everyone speaks English with no foreign symbols - so, no mathematical > > notations. > > Pardon me, but you can't even write *English* in ASCII. > > You can't say that it cost you £10 to courier your résumé to the head > office of Encyclopædia Britanica to apply for the position of Staff > Coördinator. (Admittedly, the umlaut on the second "o" looks a bit stuffy > and old-fashioned, but it is traditional English.) > > Hell, you can't even write in *American*: you can't say that the recipe > for the 20¢ WobblyBurger™ is © 2012 WobblyBurgerWorld Inc.
[Quite OT but...] How do you type all this? [Note: I grew up on APL so unlike Rick I am genuinely asking :-) ] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list