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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> wrote:
> On 16/01/2014 00:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
>>> >Or are you saying thatwww.unicode.org  is wrong about the definitions of
>>> >Unicode terms?
>>
>> No, I think he is saying that he doesn't know Unicode anywhere near as
>> well as he thinks he does. The question is, will he cherish his
>> ignorance, or learn from this thread?
>
>
> I assure you that I fully understand my ignorance of unicode. Until recently
> I didn't even know that the unicode in python 2.x is considered broken and
> that str in python 3.x is considered 'better'.

Your wisdom, if I may paraphrase Master Foo, is that you know you are a fool.

http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/zealot.html

ChrisA