On Monday 16 July 2018 11:57:25 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > 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? > > Not sure, but the default fonts in my web browser, text editor, and > terminal all have no problems with it. I'm on Debian Linux running > Xfce, fwiw. Haven't had any issues anywhere. > > ChrisA
Whereas I am on wheezy, 32 bit pae, using TDE as a desktop, with kmail-1.9-10-enterprise, using a 14 point unifont for the message body display. Its a nice clear, very readable font for these elderly eyes. I just tried several of the more std fonts w/o affecting the display of the rectangles you see above. Hence the question and thread noise. Apparently, and despite being set for utf-8, I don't have a font capable of displaying this string in its entirety as I've just tried a couple dozen more. Thanks ChrisA. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
