On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 01:20:33 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: > For a very simple reason, the latin-1 block: considered and accepted > today as beeing a Unicode design mistake.
Latin-1 (also known as ISO-8859-1) was based on DEC's "Multinational Character Set", which goes back to 1983. ISO-8859-1 was first published in 1985, and was in use on Commodore computers the same year. The concept of Unicode wasn't even started until 1987, and the first draft wasn't published until the end of 1990. Unicode wasn't considered ready for production use until 1991, six years after Latin-1 was already in use in people's computers. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
