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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:29:55 +1100
Subject: Re: python 2.7 and unicode (one more time)
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
>>> I'm saying equating an abstract data type (string) with its
>>> representation (Unicode vector) is bad taste.
>>
>> What about "sequence of Unicode code points" is "representation"? What
>> is your abstraction over that?
>
> The letter 'A' is a character. Unicode for the letter 'A' is 65. It is
> very rarely that you care about that number. You are only interested in
> the letter 'A', which you can use to spell people's names, for instance.
>
> When you read a book, you read the text, not the ink.

Then you need to read more about Unicode. The *codepoint* for the
letter 'A' is 65. That is not Unicode, that is one part of the Unicode
spec.

ChrisA