Chris Jones: > Is the implication that the principal usefulness of such languages as > Hindi and "other Indian languages" is us selling "things" to them..?
Unicode was developed by a group of US corporations: Xerox, Apple, Sun, Microsoft, ... The main motivation was to avoid dealing with multiple character set encodings since this was difficult, time consuming and expensive. > I > am not from these climes but all the same, I do find you tone of voice > rather offensive, considering that you are referring to a culture that's > about 3000 years older and 3000 richer than ours and certainly deserves > our respect. Eh? Was Unicode developed in India? China? What precisely is direspectful here? Is there a significant population that regards Unicode as their 'holy patrimony' that will suffer distress due to my post? > Maybe you didn't notice, but our plants shut down many years ago.. They > are selling _us_ their wares. Maybe your plants shut down but some of the plants I have worked at (such as the steelworks at Port Kembla) are still successfully exporting to Asia. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
