Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/13/2013 11:27 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 3:15 AM,  <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One should recognize, with win7, MS, finally, produce
>> a full unicode system. Strangely, among all the "bashing"
>> one can read about that system, this is rarely mentioned.
>> (With an excellent unicode coding scheme!)
>
> [citation needed]

Chris, I hardly think Jim's last statement (which I presume is your 
target) is egregious enough to start another junk subthread of 9 (now 
10) posts. Certainly '[citation needed]' is a pretty senseless comment. 
'Citation' to what, for what? It is well-known that Windows uses 2-byte 
words for unicode coding. If you want a citation for that fact, find it 
yourself.

What is not clear to me is whether Windows internally uses UCS-2, which 
only codes BMP chars, and which would *not* be excellent, or UTF-16, 
which covers all chars by using surrogates. I will guess the latter. 
More to the point, even if MS uses a complete coding scheme internally 
(UFT-16), it does not, as far as I know, make it fully available and 
usable to *me*, as I showed in my response about code page 65001.

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Terry Jan Reedy