Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python Unicode handling wins again -- mostly Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 11:41:28 +1300 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <529934dc$0$29993$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <529967dc$0$29993$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5299969b$0$29993$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 9OybXq9C7GKmZulpSQvCfA2NH5yKT9Ds4NIH18jIyEv+rhsC/v Cancel-Lock: sha1:lj8PLpI5QphE2oycxZIJmdy/VJ8= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <5299969b$0$29993$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:60810 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:37:17 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > >>So, who am I to argue with the people who decided that I needed to be >>able to type a "PILE OF POO" character. > > Blame the Japanese for that. Apparently some of the biggest users of > Unicode are the various Japanese mobile phone manufacturers, TV stations, > map makers and similar. Also there's apparently a pun in Japanese involving the words for 'poo' and 'luck'. So putting a poo symbol in your text message means 'good luck'. Given that, it's not *quite* as silly as it seems. -- Best of poo, Greg