Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulai...@helsinki.fi>: > UTF-16 ASCII is weird. Wierd. Probably all right in an environment > that is otherwise set to use UTF-16. > > Nothing is as weird as a mix of different encodings of a foreign > script in the same "plain text" file, said to be "Unicode". <shudder/>
Some children are just born under unlucky stars. Windows and Java are among them. If they had been designed a few years earlier or a few years later, they could have evaded the UTF-16 embarrassment, maybe the multithreading embarrassment as well. Python didn't come out unscathed, either. Multithreading is being replaced with asyncio, and Python 3 broke backward-compatibility to get Unicode right. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
