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| Date | 2013-04-20 13:22 -0400 |
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| From | Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> |
| Subject | Re: Is Unicode support so hard... |
| References | <d9798b4e-2825-4a36-93a3-f8a03d37a4bc@b3g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.856.1366478585.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 4/20/2013 1:12 PM, jmfauth wrote: > In a previous post, > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6aec70817705c226# > , > > Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: > > “Is Unicode support so hard, especially in the 21st century?” > > -- > > Unicode is not really complicate and it works very well (more > than two decades of development if you take into account > iso-14****). > > But, - I can say, "as usual" - people prefer to spend their > time to make a "better Unicode than Unicode" and it usually > fails. Python does not escape to this rule. > > ----- > > I'm "busy" with TeX (unicode engine variant), fonts and typography. > This gives me plenty of ideas to test the "flexible string > representation" (FSR). I should recognize this FSR is failing > particulary very well... > > I can almost say, a delight. > > jmf > Unicode lover I'm totally confused about what you are saying. What does "make a better Unicode than Unicode" mean? Are you saying that Python is guilty of this? In what way? Can you provide specifics? Or are you saying that you like how Python has implemented it? "FSR is failing ... a delight"? I don't know what you mean. --Ned.
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Is Unicode support so hard... jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2013-04-20 10:12 -0700
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-04-20 13:22 -0400
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2013-04-20 11:02 -0700
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-21 04:14 +1000
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-04-20 20:15 +0200
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-20 19:18 +0100
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Neil Hodgson <nhodgson@iinet.net.au> - 2013-04-21 09:03 +1000
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-04-20 18:37 -0700
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-21 03:36 +0000
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-21 13:42 +1000
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-04-21 05:02 -0400
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-21 13:03 +0100
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-04-20 18:06 -0700
Re: Is Unicode support so hard... 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2013-04-20 23:09 -0700
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