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From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: Unicode 7
Date Fri, 02 May 2014 00:16:36 -0400
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On 5/1/2014 7:33 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2014-05-01 23:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> On 5/1/2014 2:04 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>
>>>>> Since its Unicode-troll time, here's my contribution
>>>>> http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html
>>
>> I will not comment on the Unix-assumption part, but I think you go wrong
>> with this:  "Unicode is a Headache". The major headache is that unicode
>> and its very few encodings are not universally used. The headache is all
>> the non-unicode legacy encodings still being used. So you better title
>> this section 'Non-Unicode is a Headache'.
>>
> [snip]
> I think he's right when he says "Unicode is a headache", but only
> because it's being used to handle languages which are, themselves, a
> "headache": left-to-right versus right-to-left, sometimes on the same
> line;

Handling that without unicode is even worse.

> diacritics, possibly several on a glyph; etc.

Ditto.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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  Re: Unicode 7 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-04-29 12:59 -0500
    Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 21:53 -0700
      Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-01 05:00 +0000
        Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 11:04 -0700
          Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-01 18:38 -0400
            Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:29 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:39 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 13:01 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 20:16 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-02 01:05 -0400
            Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 03:15 +0000
          Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-02 00:33 +0100
            Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:02 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-02 12:39 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 19:59 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 08:45 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:08 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2014-05-02 13:04 +0300
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 03:39 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 11:55 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-02 15:19 +0300
                Re: Unicode 7 Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-03 07:07 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-02 17:13 -0400
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 09:03 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 09:50 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 11:39 -0600
                Re: Unicode 7 Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-05-02 13:46 -0400
                Re: Unicode 7 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-05-02 20:07 +0200
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 17:58 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-05-02 21:18 -0400
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 18:42 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 11:54 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:02 -0700
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 11:15 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-03 02:02 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-03 02:04 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 12:17 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-02 22:19 -0400
                Re: Unicode 7 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-05-03 12:57 -0400
                Re: Unicode 7 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-05-02 07:58 -0500
              Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-02 17:52 +0100
          Re: Unicode 7 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-05-02 00:16 -0400
            Re: Unicode 7 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 21:42 -0700
              Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 14:54 +1000
              Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 08:08 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:01 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-02 11:52 +0000
                Re: Unicode 7 Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-02 19:16 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-02 13:05 +0300
                Re: Unicode 7 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 19:24 +1000
                Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-05-02 18:07 +0100
  Re: Unicode 7 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-04-29 19:12 +0100
    Re: Unicode 7 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-04-30 00:06 -0700
      Re: Unicode 7 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-04-30 13:48 -0500
        Re: Unicode 7 wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-04-30 23:00 -0700

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