Time we switched to unicode?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
<kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:
> “If you can type an N-ARY PRODUCT, you can type a GREEK SMALL LETTER
> PI, unless there’s something very weird going on.”
>
> …like, the user is in the past and is using ISO 8859-7 (instead of a
> 21st-century encoding, like UTF-8).  An encoding which has support for
> Π¹ and π², but not for ∏³… (of course, this assumes that, if we add
> those new characters into python, we allow any encoding, somehow.)
>
> That’s not too weird, other than the ancient encoding being used.

Since we opened by discussing Unicode, anyone who's cheating and using
an eight-bit character set is, well, cheating. :)

ChrisA