'Straße' ('Strasse') and Python 2

[Robin Becker]

On 15/01/2014 17:14, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
>> I think about these as encodings, because that's what they are
>> mathematically, logically & practically. I can encode the target grapheme
>> sequence as a sequence of bytes using a particular 'unicode encoding' eg
>> utf8 or a sequence of code points.
>
> By that definition, you can equally encode it as a bitmapped image, or
> as a series of lines and arcs, and those are equally well "encodings"
> of the character. This is not the normal use of that word.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding
>
> ChrisA
>
Actually I didn't use the term 'character encoding', but that doesn't alter the 
argument. If I chose to embed the final graphemes as images encoded as bytes or 
lists of numbers that would still be still be an encoding; it just wouldn't be 
very easily usable (lots of typing).
-- 
Robin Becker