Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:: [': 0.04; 'table.': 0.07; 'string': 0.09; 'ascii': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'already,': 0.16; 'luckily,': 0.16; 'offense,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'scripts.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'discussion': 0.18; 'bit': 0.19; 'subject:] ': 0.20; 'seems': 0.21; '(the': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'byte': 0.24; 'received:comcast.net': 0.24; 'unicode': 0.24; 'software.': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'correct': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'informative': 0.31; 'languages': 0.32; 'something': 0.35; 'german': 0.35; 'add': 0.35; 'belong': 0.36; 'european': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'too': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'little': 0.38; 'recent': 0.39; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'users': 0.40; 'today,': 0.61; 'world.': 0.61; 'times': 0.62; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'more': 0.64; 'subject:+': 0.91; 'these.': 0.91; 'serious': 0.97 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ned Batchelder Subject: Re: [OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:23:01 -0500 References: <9aafd758-8c54-4abf-9ac4-46e970158131@googlegroups.com> <777aae72-b8f1-499a-84a5-197285847042@googlegroups.com> <4c10aaa4-f542-4ae6-a7dd-803f2748e632@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-50-133-228-126.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: <4c10aaa4-f542-4ae6-a7dd-803f2748e632@googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1391613802 news.xs4all.nl 2879 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:33726 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:65481 On 2/5/14 9:41 AM, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote: > If you put the FSR on the table. > I think I have a very correct vision of what Unicode > should be and*is*. (*) > I belong to those who know that latin-1 is unusable for > more than ten European languages based on latin scripts. > Today, one can add German to these. > No offense, you are still stuck and living in > the ascii world. (The recent byte string discussion > was very informative on that subject). > > Writing that the FSR does not suit my needs seems to me > a little bit exagerated. You should have more concerns > about something like "ReportLab" than about my (jmf) software. > > (*) Luckily, that's already the case for the users using > serious tools. We've been over this too many times already, and we won't be discussing it with you again. -- Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com