Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

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Le samedi 14 décembre 2013 00:30:38 UTC+1, Terry Reedy a écrit :
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> What is not clear to me is whether Windows internally uses UCS-2, which 
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> only codes BMP chars, and which would *not* be excellent, or UTF-16, 
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> which covers all chars by using surrogates. I will guess the latter. 
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> More to the point, even if MS uses a complete coding scheme internally 
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> (UFT-16), it does not, as far as I know, make it fully available and 
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> usable to *me*, as I showed in my response about code page 65001.
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D:\>chcp 65001
Page de codes active : 65001
D:\>echo "*"
"*"
D:\>


>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('fr_CH', 'cp1252')

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In my understanding and experience, in the MS world
(desktop, intel), today:
Unicode == utf-16-le

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If you think, utf-16, because of surrogate pairs, is
not a proper solution, the single choice is utf-32.

You may not be aware, you are already using utf-32
probably much more than you think, (in a correct way).


jmf