[Python-ideas] Smart/Curly Quote Marks and cPython

[Mikhail V]

On 27 October 2016 at 06:24, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yep, double quotes , dashes and bullets are very valuable both for typography
>> and code (which to the largest part is the same)
>> So if just blank out this maximalistic BS:
>> ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö
>>
>> And add few good bullets/blocks, probably arrows, then it would be a
>> reasonable set to
>> use for most cases.
>
> You've missed out a half a dozen characters needed by Turkish or
> Hungarian, and completely missed the point that the Latin script is
> *NOT SUFFICIENT* for Python. If you want to argue that we should
> restrict the world to 256 characters, go blog somewhere and let people
> ignore you there, rather than ignoring you here. Unicode is here to
> stay.
>
> ChrisA

So you need umlauts to describe an algorithm and to explain yourself in turkish?
Cool story. Poor uncle Garamond spins in his coffin...

So what about curly quotes? This would make at
least some sense, regardless of unicode.

Mikhail