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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:43:44 +0200
From: Alex Strickland <sscc@mweb.co.za>
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Hi

>> Sorry guys, I'm "only" able to see this (with the Python versions an end
>> user can download):
>
> [snip timeit results]
>
> While you have been all doom and gloom and negativity that Python has
> "destroyed" Unicode,

I thought that jmf's concerns were solely concerned with the selection 
of latin1 as the 1 byte set. My impression was that if some set of 
characters was chosen that included all characters commonly used in 
French then all would be well with the world.

But now I'm confused because latin1 seems to cater for French quite well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1

-- 
Regards
Alex