r: > Unicode (*puke*) seems nothing more than a brain fart of morons. And > sadly it was created by CS majors who i assumed used logic and > deductive reasoning but i must be wrong. Why should the larger world > keep supporting such antiquated languages and character sets through > Unicode? What purpose does this serve? Are we merely trying to make > everyone happy? A sort of Utopian free-language-love-fest-kinda- > thing?
Wow, I like this world you live in: all that altruism! Unicode was developed by corporations from the US left coast in order to sell their products in foreign markets at minimal cost. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list