On 20/10/2013 03:13, I wrote:
> Heck, I can't even really move off 2.6 because we use Amazon's EMR
> service, which is stuck on 2.6.
On Sunday, October 20, 2013 5:11:32 AM UTC-4, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> Dear Amazon,
>
> Please upgrade to Python 3.3 or similar so that users can have better
> unic
On 20/10/2013 03:13, Roy Smith wrote:
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Chris Angelico wrote:
Heck, I can't even really move off 2.6 because we use Amazon's EMR
service, which is stuck on 2.6.
Hrm. 2.6 is now in source-only security-only support, and that's about
to end (there's a 2.6.9 in the pipeline, and th
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Roy Smith writes:
>
>> In article ,
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> > > Heck, I can't even really move off 2.6 because we use Amazon's EMR
>> > > service, which is stuck on 2.6.
>> >
>> > Hrm. 2.6 is now in source-only security-only support, a
Roy Smith writes:
> In article ,
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > > Heck, I can't even really move off 2.6 because we use Amazon's EMR
> > > service, which is stuck on 2.6.
> >
> > Hrm. 2.6 is now in source-only security-only support, and that's
> > about to end (there's a 2.6.9 in the pipeline,
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Heck, I can't even really move off 2.6 because we use Amazon's EMR
> > service, which is stuck on 2.6.
>
> Hrm. 2.6 is now in source-only security-only support, and that's about
> to end (there's a 2.6.9 in the pipeline, and that's that). It's about
> time
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Or are you saying that that particular error code path did NOT handle
>> non-ASCII characters?
>
> Exactly. The fundamental error was caught, and then we raised another
> UnicodeEncodeError generating
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> > So, yesterday, I tracked down an uncaught exception stack in our logs to a
> > user whose username included the unicode character 'SMILING FACE WITH
> > SUNGLASSES' (U+1F60E). It turns out, that's perf
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> So, yesterday, I tracked down an uncaught exception stack in our logs to a
> user whose username included the unicode character 'SMILING FACE WITH
> SUNGLASSES' (U+1F60E). It turns out, that's perfectly fine as a user name,
> except that in o
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:16:02 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Another reasonable use for accent-stripping is searches. If I'm searching
> for music by the Blue Öyster Cult, it would be good to see results for
> Blue Oyster Cult as well.
Tell me about it (I work at Songza; music sear
On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:14:30 -0300, Zero Piraeus wrote:
> :
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 09:19:12AM +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Make no mistake, this sort of simple-minded stripping of accents and
>> diacritics is an extremely ham-fisted thing to do.
[...]
> Joking aside, there is a legitimat
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 8:40:37 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
> Zero Piraeus wrote:
>
> > For example, a miscreant may create the username 'míguel' in order to
> > pose as another user 'miguel', relying on other users inattentiveness.
> > Asciifying is one way of reducing the risk of that.
In article ,
Zero Piraeus wrote:
> For example, a miscreant may create the username 'míguel' in order to
> pose as another user 'miguel', relying on other users inattentiveness.
> Asciifying is one way of reducing the risk of that.
Determining if two strings are "almost the same" is not easy.
:
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 09:19:12AM +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Make no mistake, this sort of simple-minded stripping of accents and
> diacritics is an extremely ham-fisted thing to do.
I used to live on a street called Calle Colón, so I'm aware of the
dangers of stripping diacritics:
http
Zero/Stephen ... thank you for your replies ... they were both very helpful,
both in addressing the immediate issue and for getting a better understanding
of the context of the conversion. Greatly appreciate your taking the time for
such good solutions.
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caldwelli...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am looking for an example of a UNICODE to ASCII conversion example that
> will remove diacritics from characters (and leave the characters, i.e., Klüft
> to Kluft) as well as handle the conversion of other characters, like große to
> grosse.
http
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:45:53 -0700, caldwellinva wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am looking for an example of a UNICODE to ASCII conversion example
> that will remove diacritics from characters (and leave the characters,
> i.e., Klüft to Kluft) as well as handle the conversion of other
> characters, like groß
:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 01:45:53PM -0700, caldwelli...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am looking for an example of a UNICODE to ASCII conversion example
> that will remove diacritics from characters (and leave the characters,
> i.e., Klüft to Kluft) as well as handle the conversion of other
> characters,
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