Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary

wxjmfauth at gmail.com wxjmfauth at gmail.com
Sat Mar 22 04:54:26 EDT 2014


Le samedi 22 mars 2014 05:59:34 UTC+1, Mark H. Harris a écrit :
> On 3/21/14 11:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> > (Side point: You have your 0d and your 0a backwards; the Unix line
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> > ending is U+000A, and the Windows default is U+000D U+000A.)
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>     Yeah, I know... smart apple.
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> > How are you going to make people change? What are you going to make
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> > them change to? Who controls this standard, and how do you convince
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> > all OSes to comply with it?
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>     Well, we're already doing this to some extent; baby steps.  Well, we 
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> have open document standards (evolving) and we have a really good sense 
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> for unicode (and python is being a genuine leader there) and the 
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> flat-file is just another open document (very simple no doubt), not 
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> different from a standards viewpoint than rft, odt, {whatever}; txt?
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> 
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>     My idea is that as we are morphing open document standards we need 
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> to keep the "flat-file" in mind too.  The ASCII ship has sailed too. 
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> Unicode is in, ASCII is out (for all intents and purposes) except at 
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> Microsoft---and its time to rethink what a "flat" unicode text file 
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> really is. That's all.
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> 

No offense. A good start would be to understand "unicode"
instead of bashing MS.

jmf



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