Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Sigvaldi Eggertsson]

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote in message news:<Ul8E8.20960$L76.1829 at rwcrnsc53>...

>> Philip Williams, of ABC news, called English "... a language that
> invades foreign lands quicker than foot-and-mouth" and the French
> Ministry of Education says to its students "Choose another language --
> Dutch, Italian, German, Icelandic, Congolese, anything but English."
> Or, do like the French, and regularly expunge 'profanities' from the
> official language, not that anybody regularly *speaks* the official
> language.  Or like Iceland, which rightly sets the blame at Bill Gates'
> doorstep.  ;-)
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/technology/html98/icel_063098.html

When the article was published it was already out of date, Microsoft
put out an Icelandic version of Windows 98 just after this was
written.