Unicode in Python
Rustom Mody
rustompmody at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 23:57:39 EDT 2014
On Sunday, April 20, 2014 3:29:00 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 23:40:18 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
>
> > It's just that the improvement
> > from 2 to 3 is rather small, and 2 works perfectly well and people are
> > used to it, so they keep using it.
>
>
> Spoken like a true ASCII user :-)
Heh!
>
> The "killer feature" of Python 3 is improved handling of Unicode, which
> now brings Python 3 firmly into the (very small) group of programming
> languages with first-class support for more than 128 different characters
> by default.
As a unicode user (ok wannabe unicode user :D ) Ive
written up some unicode ideas that have been discussed here in the
last couple of weeks:
http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicoded-python.html
If Ive non or misattributed some ideas please excuse and let me know!
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