Python Unicode handling wins again -- mostly

[Gregory Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:37:17 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
> 
>>So, who am I to argue with the people who decided that I needed to be
>>able to type a "PILE OF POO" character.
> 
> Blame the Japanese for that.  Apparently some of the biggest users of
> Unicode are the various Japanese mobile phone manufacturers, TV stations, 
> map makers and similar.

Also there's apparently a pun in Japanese involving the
words for 'poo' and 'luck'. So putting a poo symbol in
your text message means 'good luck'. Given that, it's
not *quite* as silly as it seems.

-- 
Best of poo,
Greg