Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Unicode normalisation [was Re: [beginner] What's wrong?] Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 21:25:48 +1200 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <1459571270.714249.566352882.6ADCD0CC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87bn5sqcac.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <56ffedf1$0$1611$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87h9fkq7tl.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <3524319.g0I1c1cpMS@PointedEars.de> <2796705.edb3E9ArW3@PointedEars.de> <1584744.4h7ToaqLat@PointedEars.de> <5705b9ef$0$1611$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <570748ec$0$1620$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5707fc05$0$1603$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87zit4exrj.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ByAy7k7ZQguvwBkg+JUZUQBWWgGd8mopePBOhyKbyiJXoz6hDO Cancel-Lock: sha1:84W7oobMEMBQdOPNUUK4cjPcBJk= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87zit4exrj.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:106777 > Steven D'Aprano : > >>But when you get down to fundamentals, character sets and alphabets have >>always blurred the line between presentation and meaning. W ("double-u") >>was, once upon a time, UU And before that, it was VV, because the Romans used V the way we now use U, and didn't have a letter U. When U first appeared, it was just a cursive style of writing a V. According to this, it wasn't until the 18th century that the English alphabet got both U and V as separate letters: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=147677 Apparently "uu"/"vv" came to be known as "double u" prior to that, and the name has persisted. -- Greg