On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote: > On 2016-03-09, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Then *get interested*. Unicode is the only way that you'll ever not be >> parochially bound to a subset of English - or, worse, bound to an >> arbitrary eight-bit codepage that you don't even control the choice >> of, such that your program behaves differently on different systems. >> FIX YOUR LANGUAGE and support non-English text. > > You can't even support English text properly without Unicode. > Plenty of English words use non-ASCII characters: > café, crêpe, façade, naïve, dæmon, etc.
Like I said, a subset of English. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list