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Re: Unicode humor

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Date Sat, 11 May 2013 22:48:37 +1000
Subject Re: Unicode humor
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On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> This simply shows bias to the English speaking world, as does Python
> unicode, at least in 3.3+.  I wouldn't mind betting that other languages
> can't cope, e.g. can 3.3+ manage the top secret joke that's so deadly even
> the Germans die laughing?

It most certainly can. However, the space it takes up depends on how
you encode the combining characters; for maximal efficiency of
transmission, you would want to use the fully-composed version,
because like music, if it isn't composed, it's decomposed.

ChrisA

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  Re: Unicode humor Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-05-08 19:16 +0200
  Re: Unicode humor jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2013-05-10 08:06 -0700
    Re: Unicode humor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 01:16 +1000
      Re: Unicode humor Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-11 07:01 +0000
        Re: Unicode humor Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-11 15:28 -0400
    Re: Unicode humor Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-10 11:24 -0400
    Re: Unicode humor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 01:32 +1000
      Re: Unicode humor rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-10 09:07 -0700
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        Re: Unicode humor Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-05-10 09:26 -0700
        Re: Unicode humor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 22:48 +1000
        Re: Unicode humor Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-11 13:40 +0100
        Re: Unicode humor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 02:25 +1000

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