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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2016-03-17, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:31 AM,  <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>>> Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In the event that i change my mind about Unicode, and/or for
>>>> the sake of others, who may want to know, please provide a
>>>> list of languages that *YOU* think handle Unicode better than
>>>> Python, starting with the best first. Thanks.
>>>>
>>> How about a list of languages that Unicode handles better than ASCII?
>>> Like almost every language *except* English.
>>
>> Like every language *including* English. You can pretend that ASCII is
>> enough, but you do lose some information.
>
> And I suppose you youngsters really think you need both upper and
> lower case and all those fancy curly braces, pipes, backslashes
> asterisks, and semi-colons and whatnot.  [Yes, I've written software
> that had to deal with baudot because that's all the paper tape reader
> could handle.]

You can pretend that only 1 and 0 are enough. Good luck making THAT work.

ChrisA