On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Andrew Kuchling wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:15:49AM -0400, Simon Cozens wrote: > >If by UCS-2 you actually mean UTF-16, then using surrogates is the > >right approach. :) > > <head explodes> If a narrow Python uses UTF-16 (and it does seem to, > according to PEP 100), then the configure script's > --enable-unicode=ucs2 option should be changed, because it's > misleading. (-: I am becoming convinced that Unicode is a multi-national plot to take over the minds of our most gifted (and/or most obsessive) programmers, in pursuit of an elusive, unresolvable, and ultimately, undefinable goal. To what point? To divert those of merit, and enable the emergence of the mediocritocricy - a modest plot to elevate the overshadowed to positions of remotely impressive power. Now that i'm nearly convinced of this conspiracy, perhaps i should be nearly committed... Ken:-)
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