Re: Unicode 7

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2014-05-01 19:59 -0700
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Subject	Re: Unicode 7
From	Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>

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On Friday, May 2, 2014 8:09:44 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Rustom Mody  writes:

> > Yes, the headaches go a little further back than Unicode.

> Okay, so can you change your article to reflect the fact that the
> headaches both pre-date Unicode, and are made much easier by Unicode?

Predate: Yes
Made easier: No

> > There is a certain large old book...

> Ah yes, the neo-Sumerian story "Enmerkar_and_the_Lord_of_Aratta"
> <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enmerkar_and_the_Lord_of_Aratta>.
> Probably inspired by stories older than that, of course.

Thanks for that link

> > In which is described the building of a 'tower that reached up to heaven'...
> > At which point 'it was decided'¶ to do something to prevent that.
> > And our headaches started.

> And other myths with fantastic reasons for the diversity of language
> <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythical_origins_of_language>.

This one takes the cake - see 1st para
http://hilgart.org/enformy/BronsonRekindling.pdf


> > I never knew of any of this in the good ol days of ASCII

> Yes, by ignoring all other writing systems except one's own - and
> thereby excluding most of the world's people - the system can be made
> simpler.

> Hopefully the proportion of programmers who still feel they can make
> such a parochial choice is rapidly shrinking.

See link above: Ethnic differences and chauvinism are invariably linked

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Unicode 7 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-04-29 10:37 -0700
  Re: Unicode 7 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-04-29 12:59 -0500
    Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 21:53 -0700
      Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-01 05:00 +0000
        Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 11:04 -0700
          Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-01 18:38 -0400
            Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:29 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:39 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 13:01 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 20:16 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-02 01:05 -0400
            Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 03:15 +0000
          Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-02 00:33 +0100
            Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:02 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-02 12:39 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:59 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 08:45 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:08 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2014-05-02 13:04 +0300
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 03:39 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 11:55 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-02 15:19 +0300
                Re: Unicode 7 Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-03 07:07 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-02 17:13 -0400
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 09:03 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 09:50 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 11:39 -0600
                Re: Unicode 7 Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-05-02 13:46 -0400
                Re: Unicode 7 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-05-02 20:07 +0200
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 17:58 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-05-02 21:18 -0400
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 18:42 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 11:54 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:02 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 11:15 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-03 02:02 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-03 02:04 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 12:17 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-02 22:19 -0400
                Re: Unicode 7 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-05-03 12:57 -0400
                Re: Unicode 7 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-05-02 07:58 -0500
              Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-02 17:52 +0100
          Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-02 00:16 -0400
            Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 21:42 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 14:54 +1000
              Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 08:08 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:01 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 11:52 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-02 19:16 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-02 13:05 +0300
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:24 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-02 18:07 +0100
  Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-04-29 19:12 +0100
    Re: Unicode 7 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-04-30 00:06 -0700
      Re: Unicode 7 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-04-30 13:48 -0500
        Re: Unicode 7 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-04-30 23:00 -0700

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