On Sunday 15 July 2018 16:09:21 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, James Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> No. The real ten billion dollar question is how people in 2018 can > >> stick their head in the sand and take seriously the position that > >> Latin-1 (let alone ASCII) is enough for text strings. > > > > Easy - for many people, 90% of the Python code they write is not > > intended for world-wide distribution, let alone use. > > > > The smart thing would be for a language to have a switch of some > > sort to turn on/off all I18N features. > > Earlier I cited an example of round-tripping from human to human via > various web protocols. Here's an actual example of a Twitch stream > title: > > π±γ Stardew Valley Fanart γπ±*:ο½₯οΎβ§γ 800 Subpoints = NEW EMOTE > γ#devicat #anime #stardewvalley #fantasy > Ok, I'll bite. What font would be used to properly display the above? > Citation: https://www.twitch.tv/devicat just went live with that > title. This is a channel where rule #3 is that everyone should speak > English. If "all I18N features" are disabled, would this title be > disallowed? Several of those characters are not in Latin-1; one of > them (occurring twice) isn't even in the BMP. > > ChrisA
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