On Friday, May 30, 2014 10:08:04 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 30/05/2014 17:15, Rustom Mody wrote: > > On Friday, May 30, 2014 8:36:54 PM UTC+5:30, jmf wrote: > > It is now about time that we stop taking ASCII seriously!!
> This can't happen in the Python world until there is a sensible approach > to unicode. Ah, but wait a minute, the ball was set rolling with Python > 3.0. Then came PEP 393 and the Flexible String Representation in Python > 3.3 and some strings came down in size by a factor of 75% and in most > cases it was faster. Just what do some people want in life, jam on it? I dont see that these two are related¹ You are talking about the infrastructure needed for writing unicode apps. The language need not have non-ASCII lexemes for that I am talking about something quite different. Think for example of a German wanting to write "Gödel" According to some conventions (s)he can write Goedel But if that is forced just because of ASCII/US-104/what-have-u it would justifiably cause irritation/offense. Likewise I am talking about the fact that x≠y is prettier than x != y.² In earlier times the former was not an option. Today the latter is drawn from an effectively random subset of unicode only for historical reasons and not anything technologically current. ----------------------- ¹ Ok very very distantly related maybe in the sense that since python is a key part of modern linux system admin, and getting out of ASCII-jail needs the infrastructure to work smoothly in the wider unicode world. ² And probably 100s of other such egs, some random sample of which I have listed: http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicoded-python.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
