[Python-3000] PEP 3131 accepted (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Thu May 24 09:05:39 CEST 2007


"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> This particular excuse pisses me off the most. "If you can't > differentiate, then your font or editor sucks." Thank you for passing > judgement on my choice of font or editor, but Ka-Ping already stated > why this argument is bullshit: there does not currently exist a font > where one can differentiate all the glyphs

That's not true. In the Unicode BMP fallback font, you can easily differentiate all Unicode characters (in the BMP): http://scripts.sil.org/UnicodeBMPFallbackFont

That's a cute hack that offers a method of applying the "just use hex" argument to any editor with multi-font support, but it certainly isn't usable for actual work.



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