On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:02:36 -0400, Richard Damon wrote: > You are defining a variable/fixed width codepoint set. Many others want > to deal with CHARACTER sets.
Good luck coming up with a universal, objective, language-neutral, consistent definition for a character. > This doesn’t mean that UTF-32 is an awful system, just that it isn’t the > magical cure that some were hoping for. Nobody ever claimed it was, except for the people railing that since it isn't a magically system we ought to go back to the Good Old Days of code page hell, or even further back when everyone just used ASCII. -- 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
