Article on the future of Python

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Alex Strickland <sscc at mweb.co.za> wrote:
> I thought that jmf's concerns were solely concerned with the selection of
> latin1 as the 1 byte set. My impression was that if some set of characters
> was chosen that included all characters commonly used in French then all
> would be well with the world.
>
> But now I'm confused because latin1 seems to cater for French quite well:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1

I understand ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9) to be the preferred Latin character
set for French, as it includes the Euro sign as well as a few
characters that are not in Latin-1 but are nonetheless infrequently
found in French.