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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:07:15 +1000
Subject: Re: Best GUI for Python
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 April 2015 16:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Of course \u0079\x6f&75; can :-)

That's an encoding, not a conversion :)

ChrisA