On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:24:10 +0100, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: > Oh: and speaking of fancy Unicode characters that are worthless > ~duplicates, spot the difference here: > > µ μ
I take exception to your description of them as *worthless* duplicates. "Unfortunate" would be a better choice of word. Unicode has (at least) two aims: - to include every "character" used in human language (please, no arguments about what defines a character); and - to losslessly represent every character available in the dozens of legacy code pages and character sets. It's that second requirement -- specifically the "lossless" part -- that leads to such annoyances as µ and μ. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
