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| From | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? |
| Date | 2015-12-18 16:56 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.57.1450475780.30845.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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On 12/18/2015 4:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 05:51 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> I would be inclined to ASCIIfy the apostrophes, dashes, and the >> connection.py space that started this thread. People's names, URLs, >> and demonstrative characters I'm more inclined to leave. Agreed? > > No. No in the sense of a blanket rule. But in at least some cases, yes. In idlelib/README.txt, ' somehow got changed to the a latin-1 encoded slanted apostrophe (by Notepad++ I think) when I edited the file. Since IDLE *assumes* that the file is ascii-only and does not specify an encoding, display failed on Serhiy's non-Windows system. Issue 25905. I changed it back. Other accidents should be fixed. Guido also wants syntax chars and identifiers in stdlib code kept to ascii only for universal readability. Maybe that will change someday. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-18 17:51 +1100
Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-18 20:49 +1100
Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-12-18 07:55 -0800
Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-18 16:56 -0500
Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-12-19 00:16 +0200
Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-19 10:58 +1100
Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-12-19 00:52 -0800
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