Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@vub.be>: > On 17-07-18 10:27, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Also, Python2's strings do as good a job at delivering codepoints as >> Python3. > > No they don't. The programs that I work on, need to be able to treat > at least german, french, dutch and english text. My experience is that > in python3 it is way easier to do things right. Especially if you are > working with regular expressions.
If you assume that NFC normalizes every letter to a single codepoint (and carefully use NFC everywhere), you are right. But equally likely you may inadvertently be setting yourself up for a surprise. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
