[Python-Dev] OT: Unicode history (was Alternative Impl. for PEP 292) (original) (raw)
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[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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