Unicode humor

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat May 11 08:48:37 EDT 2013


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> This simply shows bias to the English speaking world, as does Python
> unicode, at least in 3.3+.  I wouldn't mind betting that other languages
> can't cope, e.g. can 3.3+ manage the top secret joke that's so deadly even
> the Germans die laughing?

It most certainly can. However, the space it takes up depends on how
you encode the combining characters; for maximal efficiency of
transmission, you would want to use the fully-composed version,
because like music, if it isn't composed, it's decomposed.

ChrisA



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