Unicode [was Re: Cult-like behaviour]

[Jim Lee]

On 07/16/18 03:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> But the thing is, that complexity is *inherent in the domain*. You can
> try to deal with it without Unicode, and as soon as you have users
> expecting to use more than one code page, you're doomed.
>

No, I'm not doomed, because there *are* no other users.  Never will be.  
I thought I made that clear.

Many programming tasks do not go beyond the machine they were written on.

You seem to think I'm trying to rid the world of Unicode - I've stressed 
that I'm not.

I just think that a language should allow one to bypass Unicode handling 
easily *when it's not needed*.

-Jim