Le samedi 22 mars 2014 05:59:34 UTC+1, Mark H. Harris a écrit : > On 3/21/14 11:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > (Side point: You have your 0d and your 0a backwards; the Unix line > > > ending is U+000A, and the Windows default is U+000D U+000A.) > > > > Yeah, I know... smart apple. > > > > > How are you going to make people change? What are you going to make > > > them change to? Who controls this standard, and how do you convince > > > all OSes to comply with it? > > > > Well, we're already doing this to some extent; baby steps. Well, we > > have open document standards (evolving) and we have a really good sense > > for unicode (and python is being a genuine leader there) and the > > flat-file is just another open document (very simple no doubt), not > > different from a standards viewpoint than rft, odt, {whatever}; txt? > > > > My idea is that as we are morphing open document standards we need > > to keep the "flat-file" in mind too. The ASCII ship has sailed too. > > Unicode is in, ASCII is out (for all intents and purposes) except at > > Microsoft---and its time to rethink what a "flat" unicode text file > > really is. That's all. > >
No offense. A good start would be to understand "unicode" instead of bashing MS. jmf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list