[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Alternative Implementation for PEP 292:SimpleString Substitutions (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Sep 14 08:54:44 CEST 2004

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote in message news:ci3g2d$m3g$1 at sea.gmane.org...

usually shorter in languages with many ideographs (my non-scientific tests indicate that chinese text uses about 4 times less symbols than english; I'm sure someone can dig up better figures).

This is why I am not especially enamored of Unicode and the prospect of Python becoming married to it. It is heavily weighted in favor of efficiently representing Chinese and inefficiently representing English. To give English equivalent treatment, the 20,000 or so most common words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes would each get its own codepoint.

Terry J. Reedy

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