Unicode humor

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Sat May 11 03:01:34 EDT 2013


On Sat, 11 May 2013 01:16:36 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:06 AM, jmfauth <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8 mai, 15:19, Roy Smith <r... at panix.com> wrote:
>>> Apropos to any of the myriad unicode threads that have been going on
>>> recently:
>>>
>>> http://xkcd.com/1209/
>>
>> ------
>>
>>
>> This reflects a lack of understanding of Unicode.
> 
> By the skywriter, or by the two on the ground, or by Randall Munroe?

Obviously by all three. It takes *hours* to execute

'è'*1000.replace('è', 'ã')

using a skywriting plane, so obviously it isn't Unicode compliant.



-- 
Steven



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