[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Mon May 28 02:41:34 CEST 2007

On 5/27/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

Jim Jewett writes:

> > Cf characters? Are we admitting "stupid bidi tricks", too? > > If Tomer needs them. But that's what I mean by respecting the work of the Unicode technical committees. They say he doesn't need them, no matter what he thinks. They do make mistakes. But they are far less likely to make mistakes than a non-specialist native speaker.

Sincere question: if these characters aren't needed, why are they provided? From what I can tell by googling, they're needed when, e.g., Arabic is embedded in an otherwise left-to-right script. Do I have that right? That sounds pretty close to what you'd get when using Arabic identifiers with the English keywords/stdlib.

Collin Winter

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