Ah Python, you have spoiled me for all other languages

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Chris Angelico wrote:

> […] My hobby-horse, Unicode, is a notable flaw in many languages - if you 
> ask the user for information (in the most obvious way for whatever 
> environment you're in, be that via a web browser request, or a GUI widget, 
> or text entered at the console), can it cope equally with all the world's 
> languages? What if you want to manipulate that text - is it represented as 
> a sequence of codepoints (Python 3), UTF-16 code units (JavaScript),

If only characters were represented as sequences UTF-16 code units in 
ECMAScript implementations like JavaScript, there would not be a problem 
beyond the BMP; see <http://PointedEars.de/wsvn/JSX/trunk/string/unicode.js> 
and others for details.

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