In article <mailman.5730.1329065268.27778.python-l...@python.org>, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:48:36 -0500, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > > >As Steven D'Aprano pointed out, it was missing some commonly used US > >symbols such as ¢ or ©. That's interesting. When I wrote that, it showed on my screen as a cent symbol and a copyright symbol. What I see in your response is an upper case "A" with a hat accent (circumflex?) over it followed by a cent symbol, and likewise an upper case "A" with a hat accent over it followed by copyright symbol. Oh, for the days of ASCII again :-) Not to mention, of course, that I wrote <colon><dash><close-paren>, but I fully expect some of you will be reading this with absurd clients which turn that into some kind of smiley-face image. > Any volunteers to create an Extended Baudot... Instead of "letter > shift" and "number shift" we could have a generic "encoding shift" which > uses the following characters to identify which 7-bit subset of Unicode > is to be represented <G> I think that's called UTF-8.
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