On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:12:36 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> See the similarity now? Both flexibly change the width used by code- >> points, UTF-8 based on the code-point itself regardless of the rest of >> the string, Python based on the largest code-point in the string. > > No, I think we're just using the word "flexible" differently. In my > view, simply being variable-width does not make an encoding "flexible" > in the sense of the FSR. But I'm not going to keep repeating myself in > order to argue about it.
But I paid for the full half hour! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Argument_Sketch -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
