Unicode in Python

wxjmfauth at gmail.com wxjmfauth at gmail.com
Sat May 3 03:46:28 EDT 2014


Le vendredi 2 mai 2014 05:50:40 UTC+2, Michael Torrie a écrit :
> Can't help but feed the troll... forgive me.
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> On 04/28/2014 02:57 AM, wxjmfauth at gmail.com wrote:
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> > Python 2.7 + cp1252:
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> > - Solid and coherent system (nothing to do with the Euro).
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> Except that cp1252 is not unicode.  Perhaps some subset of unicode can
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> be encoded into bytes using cp1252.  But if it works for you keep using
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> it, and stop spreading nonsense about FSR.
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> > Python 3:
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> > - Flexible String Representation (a problem per se),
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> > a mathematical absurditiy which does the opposite of
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> > the coding schemes endorsed by Unicord.org (sheet of
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> > paper and pencil!)
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> > - Very deeply buggy (quadrature of the circle problem).
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> Maybe it's the language barrier, but whatever it is you are talking
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> about, I certainly can't make out.
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> You've been ranting about FSR for years without being able to clearly
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> say what's wrong with it.  Please quote unicode specifications that you
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> feel Python does not implement.  What unicode characters cannot be
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> represented?  Does Python choke on certain unicode strings or expose
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> entities it should not (like Javascript does)?
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> Why would you think that the unicode consortium's list of byte encodings
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> are the only possible valid ways of encoding unicode to a byte stream?
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> If you're going to continue to write this sort of stuff, please have the
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> decency to answer these questions at least.
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> > Positive side:
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> > - A very nice tool to teach the coding of characters
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> > and unicode.
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> 
> Indeed.

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