[François Pinard] >>Many people consider that Unicode, or UTF-8 at least, is strongly >>favouring English (boldly American) over any other script or language. >>If it has not been so, Americans would never have promoted it so much, >>and would have rather shown an infinite and eternal reluctance... To be fair to the developers of Unicode, I'd suggest that the issue is not favoring (note spelling! :) ) English, but rather keeping compatibility with an enormous amount of existing data which was encoded in ASCII. Which was an English standard, but you can only do so much in 7 bits... As for American reluctance, how are you going to convince anyone to double (at least) the storage requirements for their data, to support languages they never use? That would have cost a great deal of money. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20040914/151e29b1/attachment.htm
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