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On 26/09/2012 08:44, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>> wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has
>>>> been transformed into an "American" product for
>>>> "American" users.
>>>
>> Well, we can all use american as a standard, or maybe you'd prefer to
>> borrow my Latin for Idiots handbook. But then again google has a
>> Universal Communicator going, so, does it matter?
>
> Never in the field of human discussion has there been so much reason
> for so many to plonk so few.
>
> ChrisA
>

I tried to make a play on that some days ago and failed dismally. 
Thanks for putting me out of my misery :)

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.