On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> 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. > > ASCII was a necessity back then because RAM and storage are too small. > 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 > I miss the days when I was coding with my XT computer (640kb RAM) too. Things were so simple back then. > 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 > -- Marcos | I love PHP, Linux, and Java <http://javadevnotes.com/java-integer-to-string-examples>
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