Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Unicode normalisation [was Re: [beginner] What's wrong?] Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:20:02 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <2796705.edb3E9ArW3@PointedEars.de> <1584744.4h7ToaqLat@PointedEars.de> <5705b9ef$0$1611$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <570748ec$0$1620$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <874mbcgfmd.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <753cdb8b-9f94-48d6-bc0d-589efba86afc@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de sg/lsEwlh3uL+cgIiHq/BwFCglAwcPT5tuEN7hdhM1vw== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.015 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:: [': 0.03; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'sane': 0.09; '2016': 0.16; 'hangs': 0.16; 'name...': 0.16; 'opposite': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'subject:Unicode': 0.16; 'subject:beginner': 0.16; 'typing': 0.18; 'url:home': 0.18; 'subject:] ': 0.19; '(the': 0.22; 'keys': 0.22; 'plain': 0.24; "doesn't": 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'fri,': 0.27; 'ibm': 0.27; 'subject: [': 0.29; 'probably': 0.31; 'up.': 0.32; '-0700': 0.33; 'european': 0.33; 'except': 0.34; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'reached': 0.60; 'school': 0.62; 'different': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'goal': 0.64; 'touch': 0.66; 'letters': 0.67; 'design.': 0.72; 'training': 0.78; 'fortunately,': 0.84; 'hands,': 0.84; 'subject:skip:n 10': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.93; 'hands': 0.96 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-68-179-75.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: <2796705.edb3E9ArW3@PointedEars.de> <1584744.4h7ToaqLat@PointedEars.de> <5705b9ef$0$1611$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <570748ec$0$1620$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <874mbcgfmd.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <753cdb8b-9f94-48d6-bc0d-589efba86afc@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:106713 On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 11:04:53 -0700 (PDT), Rustom Mody declaimed the following: >Its reasonably likely that all our keyboards start QWERT... > Doesn't make it a sane design. > It was a sane design -- for early mechanical typewrites. It fulfills its goal of slowing down a typist to reduce jamming print-heads at the platen.* And since so many of us who had formal touch typing training probably learned on said mechanical typewriters, it hangs around. Fortunately, even though the typewriters at school had European dead-keys, we were plain English and I never had to pick them up. For a few years I did have problems with ()... They were on different keys (8 and 9, respectively) on old typewriters (the type that also had no 1) vs IBM Selectrics (never used by be) and computer terminals... * Except I kept jamming two letters of my last name... I and E are reached with the same finger on opposite hands, which made a fast stroke-pair (compare moving the same finger on both hands to moving different fingers). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/