Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > Yes, the headaches go a little further back than Unicode.
Okay, so can you change your article to reflect the fact that the headaches both pre-date Unicode, and are made much easier by Unicode? > There is a certain large old book... Ah yes, the neo-Sumerian story “Enmerkar_and_the_Lord_of_Aratta” <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enmerkar_and_the_Lord_of_Aratta>. Probably inspired by stories older than that, of course. > In which is described the building of a 'tower that reached up to heaven'... > At which point 'it was decided'¶ to do something to prevent that. > And our headaches started. And other myths with fantastic reasons for the diversity of language <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythical_origins_of_language>. > I never knew of any of this in the good ol days of ASCII Yes, by ignoring all other writing systems except one's own – and thereby excluding most of the world's people – the system can be made simpler. Hopefully the proportion of programmers who still feel they can make such a parochial choice is rapidly shrinking. -- \ “Why doesn't Python warn that it's not 100% perfect? Are people | `\ just supposed to “know” this, magically?” —Mitya Sirenef, | _o__) comp.lang.python, 2012-12-27 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
