On Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:30:43 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:53:22 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:29:23 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Chase wrote: > >> While I dislike feeding the troll, what I see here is: > > Since its Unicode-troll time, here's my contribution > > http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html > Also your link to Joel On Software mistakenly links to me instead of Joel. > There's a missing apostrophe in "Ive" [sic] in Acknowledgment #2. Done, Done. > I didn't notice any other typos. Thank you sir! > I point out that out of the two most widespread flavours of OS today, > Linux/Unix and Windows, it is *Windows* and not Unix which still > regularly uses legacy encodings. Not sure what you are suggesting... That (I am suggesting that) 8859 is legacy and 1252 is not? > I disagree with much of your characterisation of the Unix assumption, I'd be interested to know the details -- Contents? Details? Tone? Tenor? Blaspheming the sacred scripture? (if you are so inclined of course) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
