On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-03-17, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Rick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> In the event that i change my mind about Unicode, and/or for >>>> the sake of others, who may want to know, please provide a >>>> list of languages that *YOU* think handle Unicode better than >>>> Python, starting with the best first. Thanks. >>>> >>> How about a list of languages that Unicode handles better than ASCII? >>> Like almost every language *except* English. >> >> Like every language *including* English. You can pretend that ASCII is >> enough, but you do lose some information. > > And I suppose you youngsters really think you need both upper and > lower case and all those fancy curly braces, pipes, backslashes > asterisks, and semi-colons and whatnot. [Yes, I've written software > that had to deal with baudot because that's all the paper tape reader > could handle.]
You can pretend that only 1 and 0 are enough. Good luck making THAT work. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
