On 6/16/2020 7:45 PM, DL Neil via Python-list wrote:
On 13/06/20 4:47 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
There was a recent thread on python-ideas discussing this. It started
with arrow characters. There have been others.
Am pleased to hear that it's neither 'new' nor 'way out there'...
The idea has b
There was a recent thread on python-ideas discussing this. It started
with arrow characters. There have been others.
Am pleased to hear that it's neither 'new' nor 'way out there'...
Am not subscribed to that list. Went looking for its archives, but
failed - there's no "ideas" on
(https://
On 13/06/20 5:11 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:03:55 +1200, DL Neil via Python-list
declaimed the following:
There is/was a language called "APL" (and yes the acronym means "A
Programming Language", and yes it started the craze, through "B" (and
BCPL), and yes, that brou
On 13/06/20 4:47 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 6/12/2020 2:03 AM, DL Neil via Python-list wrote:
Unicode has given us access to a wealth of mathematical and other
symbols. Hardware and soft-/firm-ware flexibility enable us to move
beyond and develop new 'standards'. Do we have opportunities to make
On 6/12/2020 2:03 AM, DL Neil via Python-list wrote:
Unicode has given us access to a wealth of mathematical and other
symbols. Hardware and soft-/firm-ware flexibility enable us to move
beyond and develop new 'standards'. Do we have opportunities to make
computer programming more math-familiar
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 9:11 PM Elliott Roper wrote:
>
> On 12 Jun 2020 at 09:47:04 BST, "moi" wrote:
> i) Who cares?
Don't bother responding to him. He's somehow gotten the idea that
Python's Unicode support is broken, and he spews his vomit out onto
the newsgroup periodically. He's blocked fro
On 12 Jun 2020 at 09:47:04 BST, "moi" wrote:
> i) Today there people, who are still not understanding this:
>
'Å'.encode('utf-8')
> b'\xc3\x85'
'Å'.encode('utf-16-le')
> b'\xc5\x00'
'Å'.encode('utf-32-le')
> b'\xc5\x00\x00\x00'
>
> ii) On a Western Europen Windows, Py 3 is not ev
