Re: Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp

2010-10-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:34:02 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: [unnecessary quoting removed] > Your headers state: > > User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Please stop spamming multiple newsgroups. I'm sure this is of great interest to the Emacs newsgroup, but not of Python. Followu

Re: Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp

2010-10-10 Thread Nobody
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:45:42 -0700, Sean McAfee wrote: >> I'll have to say, as far as text processing goes, the most beautiful >> lang with respect to unicode is emacs lisp. In elisp code (e.g. >> Generate a Web Links Report with Emacs Lisp ), i don't have to declare >> none of the unicode or enco

Re: Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp

2010-10-10 Thread David Kastrup
Sean McAfee writes: > Xah Lee writes: >> Perl's exceedingly lousy unicode support hack is well known. In fact >> it is the primary reason i “switched” to python for my scripting needs >> in 2005. (See: Unicode in Perl and Python) > > I think your assessment is antiquated. I've been doing Unicod

Re: Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp

2010-10-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:06:32 -0700, Bigos wrote: [...] > Maybe you have checked wrong version. There two versions of Ruby out > there one does support unicode and the other doesn't. Please don't feed the trolls. Xah Lee is a known troll who cross-posts to irrelevant newsgroups with his blathering

Re: Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp

2010-10-09 Thread Xah Lee
2010-10-09 On Oct 9, 3:45 pm, Sean McAfee wrote: > Xah Lee writes: > > Perl's exceedingly lousy unicode support hack is well known. In fact > > it is the primary reason i “switched” to python for my scripting needs > > in 2005. (See: Unicode in Perl and Python) > > I think your assessment is ant

Re: Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp

2010-10-09 Thread Sean McAfee
Xah Lee writes: > Perl's exceedingly lousy unicode support hack is well known. In fact > it is the primary reason i “switched” to python for my scripting needs > in 2005. (See: Unicode in Perl and Python) I think your assessment is antiquated. I've been doing Unicode programming with Perl for ab

Re: Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp

2010-10-09 Thread Bigos
On Oct 7, 7:13 pm, Xah Lee wrote: > here's my experiences dealing with unicode in various langs. > > Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp > > Xah Lee, 2010-10-07 > > I looked at Ruby 2 years ago. One problem i found is that it does not > support Unicode w

Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp

2010-10-08 Thread Xah Lee
here's my experiences dealing with unicode in various langs. Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp Xah Lee, 2010-10-07 I looked at Ruby 2 years ago. One problem i found is that it does not support Unicode well. I just checked today, it still doesn't. Just do a web search o