On Monday, March 31, 2014 12:23:55 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > Mark, you are demonstrating a habit of making sweeping pronouncements > and assertions; and then, when those statements are challenged, you > act as though you never said them.
> Here's a characteristic example: > Mark H Harris writes: > > On 3/30/14 10:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > Mark H Harris writes: > > >> I didn't really start using unicode until about 5 years ago; python > > >> has only really used it since python3. right? > > > No. Python 2.2 introduced Unicode. > > I didn't ask when it was introduced, I asked when it became useful? > That's clearly not what you asked, in the material you quoted above; and > Steven's answer to your actual false assertion is entirely appropriate. > There are many other examples in this thread, but I'm not seeking to > catalogue them; merely to show an example of what I'm observing. > I hope you can see that this behaviour quickly leads many people to > quite reasonably disregard your assertions in general, and even to > ignore you altogether. Do you think you can tone down the rhetoric and > perhaps stand by the statements you actually make? I wonder... Is there some Unicode-corollary to Godwin's law? Something like: "Whenever people discuss unicode long enough they start talking rubbish." Not very surprising given that unicode is related to human languages and human languages willy-nilly are connected to politics. It would be neat if we could stick to the 'uni(versal)' (aka math, music etc) aspect of unicode more and the 'needs localization' aspect less. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
