On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > Op 09-03-17 om 10:01 schreef Chris Angelico: >> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: >>>> So you assume that you'll never meet someone from another culture? >>>> Okay. I'm pretty sure that counts as bigoted, but sure :) >>> >>> Chris: I think that remark was uncalled for. You'd made a perfectly valid >>> point about names not always working how we think. At that point, I think >>> it's up to each person to decide their own approach based on their own >>> knowledge of their own circumstances. >> Yep. He's free to assume that not one of his friends will be from any >> culture other than his own. It just happens to be a bigoted viewpoint. > > He didn't make that assumption.
He did. On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > Yes, I'm well aware of these issues, but it's my personal address book > so I can avoid many/most of them. The justification "it's *my* personal address book" is saying "none of *my* friends have weird names, so I'm fine". So, yeah, he did. This is a design flaw on par with assuming that a byte is identical to a character; you can pretend it so long as you don't get any "funny characters". And then you can blame the non-ASCII characters for breaking your program, or force someone's name to fit into your predefined scheme. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
