Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2016-03-17, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:31 AM, <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > >> Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> In the event that i change my mind about Unicode, and/or for > >>> the sake of others, who may want to know, please provide a > >>> list of languages that *YOU* think handle Unicode better than > >>> Python, starting with the best first. Thanks. > >>> > >> How about a list of languages that Unicode handles better than ASCII? > >> Like almost every language *except* English. > > > > Like every language *including* English. You can pretend that ASCII is > > enough, but you do lose some information. > > And I suppose you youngsters really think you need both upper and > lower case and all those fancy curly braces, pipes, backslashes > asterisks, and semi-colons and whatnot. [Yes, I've written software > that had to deal with baudot because that's all the paper tape reader > could handle.] > I'm hardly a youngster, I'm nearly 70 and started programming in the early 1970s. :-)
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