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On 25/08/2014 16:04, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
> Thank goodness for Python3, which has freed us from these archaic
> confusions.
>

It had to happen.  Cue our resident unicode expert who will tell us yet 
again how fatally flawed the FSR is but once again fail to explain why. 
  Hum, which microbenchmark will get trotted out this time?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence