On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 12:07:06 AM UTC+5:30, jmf wrote: > Le mardi 3 mars 2015 19:04:06 UTC+1, Rustom Mody a écrit : > > On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 10:33:44 PM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > On 2/26/2015 8:24 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > >> Wrote something up on why we should stop using ASCII: > > > >> http://blog.languager.org/2015/02/universal-unicode.html > > > > > > I think that the main point of the post, that many Unicode chars are > > > truly planetary rather than just national/regional, is excellent. > > > > <snipped> > > > > > You should add emoticons, but not call them or the above 'gibberish'. > > > I think that this part of your post is more 'unprofessional' than the > > > character blocks. It is very jarring and seems contrary to your main > > > point. > > > > Ok Done > > > > References to gibberish removed from > > http://blog.languager.org/2015/02/universal-unicode.html > > > > What I was trying to say expanded here > > http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/whimsical-unicode.html > > [Hope the word 'whimsical' is less jarring and more accurate than > > 'gibberish'] > > ======== > > Emoji and Dingbats are now part of Unicode. > They should be considered as well as a "1" or a "a" > or a "mathematical alpha". > So, there is nothing special to say about them. > > jmf
Maybe you missed this section: http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/whimsical-unicode.html#half-assed It lists some examples of software that somehow break/goof going from BMP-only unicode to 7.0 unicode. IOW the suggestion is that the the two-way classification - ASCII - Unicode is less useful and accurate than the 3-way - ASCII - BMP - Unicode Personally I would be pleased if 𝛌 were used for the math-lambda and λ left alone for Greek-speaking users' identifiers. However one should draw a line between personal preferences and a univeral(izable) standard. As of now, λ works in blogger whereas 𝛌 breaks blogger -- gets replaced by �. Similar breakages are current in Java, Javascript, Emacs, Mysql, Idle and Windows, various fonts etc etc. [Only one of these is remotely connected with python] So BMP is practical, 7.0 is idealistic. You are free too pick 😏😉 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
