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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:59:30 +1000
Subject: Re: Best GUI for Python
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I don't think that choosing UCS-2 only is any worse than any other
> application feature like "support only jpegs, not every obscure image format
> GIMP supports" or "choose to use floating point maths instead of some
> numeric type with unlimited precision". You are free to make whatever trade-
> offs you like, and your users are free to use another application :-)

True, although supporting only one image format can be worked around
by converting your images. You can't just convert your UCS-4 data into
UCS-2.

ChrisA