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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 06:40:42 +1100
Subject: Re: Time we switched to unicode?
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Chris =E2=80=9CKwpolska=E2=80=9D Warrick
<kwpolska@gmail.com> wrote:
> =E2=80=9CIf you can type an N-ARY PRODUCT, you can type a GREEK SMALL LET=
TER
> PI, unless there=E2=80=99s something very weird going on.=E2=80=9D
>
> =E2=80=A6like, the user is in the past and is using ISO 8859-7 (instead o=
f a
> 21st-century encoding, like UTF-8).  An encoding which has support for
> =CE=A0=C2=B9 and =CF=80=C2=B2, but not for =E2=88=8F=C2=B3=E2=80=A6 (of c=
ourse, this assumes that, if we add
> those new characters into python, we allow any encoding, somehow.)
>
> That=E2=80=99s not too weird, other than the ancient encoding being used.

Since we opened by discussing Unicode, anyone who's cheating and using
an eight-bit character set is, well, cheating. :)

ChrisA