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Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 23:02:57 +1100
Subject: Re: Newbie question about text encoding
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On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> The main dream was a fixed-width encoding scheme. People thought 16 bits
> would be enough. The dream is so precious and true to us in the West
> that people don't want to give it up.

So... use Pike, or Python 3.3+?

ChrisA