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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 13:49:43 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-05-13, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> (It's always a good day to remind people that the rest of the world
>> exists.)
>
> Ironic that this should come up in a discussion on Unicode, given that
> Unicode's fundamental purpose is to welcome that whole rest of the
> world instead of yelling "LALALALALA America is everything" and
> pretending that ASCII, or Latin-1, or something, is all you need.

Well, strictly speaking, it ASCII or Latin-1 _is_ all I need.

I will however admit to the existence of other people who might need
something else...

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