On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> > ... even *Americans* cannot represent all their common characters in >> > ASCII, let alone specialised characters from mathematics, science, >> > the printing industry, and law. >> >> Aside: What additional characters does law use that aren't in ASCII? >> Section § and paragraph ¶ are used frequently, but you already >> mentioned the printing industry. Are there other symbols? > > ASCII does not contain “©” (U+00A9 COPYRIGHT SIGN) nor “®” (U+00AE > REGISTERED SIGN), for instance.
Heh! I forgot about those. U+00A9 in particular has gone so mainstream that it's easy to think of it not as "I'm going to switch to my 'British English + Legal' dictionary now" and just as "This is a critical part of the basic dictionary". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
