Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'encoding': 0.05; 'subject:text': 0.05; 'bits': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'scheme.': 0.09; 'subject:question': 0.10; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'enough.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'sat,': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'up.': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'our': 0.64; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'mar': 0.68; '2015': 0.84; 'precious': 0.84; 'so...': 0.84; 'dream': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Newbie question about text encoding Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:07:12 +0000 References: <54ECB134.5090304@davea.name> <201502241945.t1OJjshO013092@fido.openend.se> <201502241957.t1OJvrJS015604@fido.openend.se> <9169f3b1-2ac7-42a3-8033-584f84b88a1f@googlegroups.com> <7a75a23c-4678-4d7a-a2ec-9e8fff4c07f8@googlegroups.com> <132d5ce6-f672-4eec-99f9-1cc9e88b94f3@googlegroups.com> <619e4cb5-1c4c-449b-a5d7-951101b32b45@googlegroups.com> <54f862ca$0$13014$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <54fadc70$0$13004$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87twxxxbvd.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-191-2.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.19 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1425737245 news.xs4all.nl 2936 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53574 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:87087 On 07/03/2015 12:02, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Marko Rauhamaa 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 > Cue obligatory cobblers from our RUE. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence