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Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 22:48:37 +1000
Subject: Re: Unicode humor
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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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