Chris Angelico wrote: > […] My hobby-horse, Unicode, is a notable flaw in many languages - if you > ask the user for information (in the most obvious way for whatever > environment you're in, be that via a web browser request, or a GUI widget, > or text entered at the console), can it cope equally with all the world's > languages? What if you want to manipulate that text - is it represented as > a sequence of codepoints (Python 3), UTF-16 code units (JavaScript),
If only characters were represented as sequences UTF-16 code units in ECMAScript implementations like JavaScript, there would not be a problem beyond the BMP; see <http://PointedEars.de/wsvn/JSX/trunk/string/unicode.js> and others for details. -- PointedEars Twitter: @PointedEars2 Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
