Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: How to waste computer memory? Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:08:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <265377f4-741d-4aa2-9338-239f56f8bc57@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1458248917 705 67.130.15.94 (17 Mar 2016 21:08:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:08:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:105149 On 2016-03-17, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:31 AM, wrote: >> Rick Johnson wrote: >>> >>> In the event that i change my mind about Unicode, and/or for >>> the sake of others, who may want to know, please provide a >>> list of languages that *YOU* think handle Unicode better than >>> Python, starting with the best first. Thanks. >>> >> How about a list of languages that Unicode handles better than ASCII? >> Like almost every language *except* English. > > Like every language *including* English. You can pretend that ASCII is > enough, but you do lose some information. And I suppose you youngsters really think you need both upper and lower case and all those fancy curly braces, pipes, backslashes asterisks, and semi-colons and whatnot. [Yes, I've written software that had to deal with baudot because that's all the paper tape reader could handle.] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm RELIGIOUS!! at I love a man with gmail.com a HAIRPIECE!! Equip me with MISSILES!!