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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:42:14 +1000
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Article on the future of Python
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 9/26/2012 2:58 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> You know, usually when I see software decried as America-centric, it's
>> because it doesn't support Unicode. This must be the first time I've
>> seen that label applied to software that dares to *fully* support Unicode.
>
>
> What is truly bizarre is the idea came from and much or most of the
> implementation was done by Europeans, not Americans.

I suppose that a system that supports only Latin-1 is therefore Italy-centric?

ChrisA