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On 04/12/2013 13:52, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:

[snip all the double spaced stuff]

>
> Yon intuitively pointed a very important feature
> of "unicode". However, it is not necessary, this is
> exactly what unicode does (when used properly).
>
> jmf
>

Presumably using unicode correctly prevents messages being sent across 
the ether with superfluous, extremely irritating double spacing?  Or is 
that down to poor tools in combination with the ignorance of their users?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence