Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Mark Lawrence Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: How to waste computer memory? Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:38:37 +0000 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <265377f4-741d-4aa2-9338-239f56f8bc57@googlegroups.com> <87twk4q07t.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de i3KbORUpqab+Iy/joy6CKQa8kc2b/wtXLbTbYE9c48lg== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.014 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.05; 'currency': 0.07; 'pretend': 0.07; 'subject:How': 0.09; '128': 0.09; 'newly': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'language,': 0.11; 'english.': 0.13; '(windows': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'unicode.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'language': 0.19; '>>>': 0.20; 'ascii': 0.22; 'lawrence': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'rest': 0.26; 'chris': 0.26; 'equivalent': 0.27; 'least': 0.27; 'ansi': 0.29; 'code': 0.30; 'probably': 0.31; 'language.': 0.32; "i'll": 0.33; 'quickly': 0.34; 'gives': 0.35; 'could': 0.35; 'unicode': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; '(and': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'why': 0.39; 'does': 0.39; 'rather': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'mark': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'care': 0.60; 'your': 0.60; 'australia': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'lose': 0.63; 'more': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'us,': 0.69; 'stated': 0.70; 'europe': 0.71; 'published': 0.72; 'euro': 0.75; '128,': 0.84; '159': 0.84; 'points,': 0.84; 'pythonistas,': 0.84; 'western': 0.89; 'canada,': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.234.129.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:105164 On 17/03/2016 21:26, BartC wrote: > On 17/03/2016 21:11, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Chris Angelico : >> >>> Like every language *including* English. You can pretend that ASCII is >>> enough, but you do lose some information. >> >> Hold it, I'll quickly update my résumé before we resume the >> conversation. What does this exposé expose? At least it gives a coup de >> grâce to ASCII with grace. > > 'ANSI' (Windows code page 1252), will do most of what ASCII doesn't, as > far as western Europe (and the US, Canada, Australia and probably the > rest of the Americas) is concerned. Including euro and pound (€,£) > currency symbols. > > ANSI could have been equivalent to the first 256 Unicode code points, > rather than just 128, if Unicode hadn't squandered codes 128 to 159 on > even more control codes, when it's difficult to see a use for most of > the 32 that ASCII already reserves. > Why would you care? I swear blind that you stated a few days back that you, and hence your newly published language, couldn't care about unicode. Have I got it wrong? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence