On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:17:35 +0000, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:39:49 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> ... people who think that if ISO-8859-7 was good enough for Jesus ... > > It may have been good enough for his disciples, but Jesus spoke Aramaic.
The buzzing noise you just heard was the joke whizzing past your head *wink* It was a riff on the apocryphal American (occasionally other nationality) who said that if English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it is good enough for everyone: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003084.html with the twist that in my example, I picked *another* language rather than English. I shouldn't have picked Greek, an unfortunate choice that may have lead you to imagine I was serious. Perhaps ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) or Shift_JIS would have been funnier :-( And of course there is the absurdity of any ISO standards existing two thousand years ago. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
