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Op 03-09-13 17:23, wxjmfauth@gmail.com schreef:

> --------
> 
> The Latin alphabet uses Greek lettering.
> 
> The Cyrillic alphabet uses Greek lettering.
> 
> Greek: One should not confuse modern Greek
> with ancient Greek, polytonic Greek full
> of diacritics.
> 
> Plenty of European languages (~15) based on the Latin
> alphabet uses some ancient Greek diacritics.
> 
> Now unicode.
> 
> Everything is working very smoothly with the endorsed coding
> schemes of Unicode.org.
> 
> Expectedly it fails (behaves badly) with Python and its 
> Flexible Sting Representation, mainly because it relies on
> the latin-1 (iso-8859-1) set.

You really seem obsessed. There is no reason at all to think that is
problem is related to the FSR. You are only bringing this up, because
you are looking for opportunities to complain about the FSR.

> To take the problem the other way, one can take these
> linguistic ascpects to illustrate the wrong design of
> the FSR.

No you can't, you are just assuming so because you feel it would
confirm your bias against the FSR.

-- 
Antoon Pardon