On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
No. The real ten billion dollar question is how people in 2018 can stick their head in the sand and take seriously the position that Latin-1 (let alone ASCII) is enough for text strings.
Easy - for many people, 90% of the Python code they write is not intended for world-wide distribution, let alone use.
The smart thing would be for a language to have a switch of some sort to turn on/off all I18N features.
-Jim -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
