Laura Creighton wrote: > Dave Angel > are you another Native English speaker living in a world where ASCII > is enough?
ASCII was never enough. Not even for Americans, who couldn't write things like "I bought a comic book for 10ยข yesterday", let alone interesting things from maths and science. I missed the whole 7-bit ASCII period, my first computer (Mac 128K) already had an extended character set beyond ASCII. But even that never covered the full range of characters I wanted to write, and then there was the horrible mess that you got whenever you copied text files from a Mac to a DOS or Windows PC or visa versa. Yes, even in 1984 we were transferring files and running into encoding issues. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
