On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2015-02-10 19:37, Ned Deily wrote: >> On OS X, the system provides both a "Character Viewer" (which >> allows the selection of any Unicode character > > Windows also provides charmap.exe which provides similar > functionality, though last I checked it, it still had the feel of a > Win3.1 app (usability was atrocious) >
Back in the Win3.1 days, you could make a character map program that was reasonably compact - it had to offer you just 256 characters (and maybe allow you to choose a code page). Now, it's a lot broader than that... but on the flip side, I can make a single program that manipulates a single text document that contains text in all of the world's languages, so it's well worth it. And while I have never actually used _all_ the world's languages at once, I have at least gone as far as a couple dozen. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
