On 07/15/18 13:09, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, James Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Earlier I cited an example of round-tripping from human to human via
various web protocols. Here's an actual example of a Twitch stream
title:
π±γ Stardew Valley Fanart γπ±*:ο½₯οΎβ§γ 800 Subpoints = NEW EMOTE
γ#devicat #anime #stardewvalley #fantasy
Citation: https://www.twitch.tv/devicat just went live with that
title. This is a channel where rule #3 is that everyone should speak
English. If "all I18N features" are disabled, would this title be
disallowed? Several of those characters are not in Latin-1; one of
them (occurring twice) isn't even in the BMP.
ChrisA
I have absolutely zero interest in Twitch - I don't even know what it is.
This should drive home my point that, for many tasks, I18N or, more
specifically, Unicode is an unnecessary complication.
If my program doesn't give a whit about web protocols or emoji, then how
some Twitch title displays itself is irrelevant.
-Jim
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