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On 5/29/2016 2:12 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:

> In short that a =E2=82=AC costs more than a $ is a combination of the f=
actors
> - a natural cause -- there are a million chars to encode (lets assume t=
hat the
> million of Unicode is somehow God-given AS A SET)
> - an artificial political one -- out of the million-factorial permutati=
ons of
> that million, the one that the Unicode consortium chose is towards sati=
sfying the
> equation: Keep ASCII users undisturbed and happy

 From the Python developer viewpoint, Unicode might as well be a fact of =

nature.  I also note that in English text, a (phoneme) char conveys=20
about 6 bits of information, while in Chinese text, a (word) char=20
conveys perhaps 15 bits of information.  So I argue that Python 3.3+'s=20
FSR is being fair in using 1 byte for the first and most often 2 bytes=20
for the other.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy