On 5/12/14 8:18 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Unicode is hard, not because Unicode is hard, but because of legacy problems.
Yes. To put a finer point on that, Unicode (which is only a specification constantly being improved upon) is harder to implement when it hasn't been on the design board from the ground up; Python in this case.
Julia has Unicode support from the ground up, and it was easier for those guys to implement (in beta release) than for the Python crew when they undertook the Unicode work that had to be done for Python3.x (just an observation).
Anytime there are legacy code issues, regression testing problems, and a host of domain issues that weren't thought through from the get-go there are going to be more problematic hurdles; not to mention bugs.
Having said that, I still think Unicode is somewhat harder than you're admitting.
marcus -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
