UTF-8

Gary E. Miller gem at rellim.com
Wed May 3 00:54:52 UTC 2017


Yo Hal!

On Tue, 02 May 2017 17:45:43 -0700
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> Is mirco the only non-ASCII character we use?

Nope.  We use at over a dozen unicode characters.  And rapidly growing.

> If so, I vote for avoiding this whole mess by sticking to ASCII and
> using "u".  I don't think there will be any problems understanding
> the meaning in our context.

What a PITA.  And for the vast majority of users anddevs that use UTF-8
by default, or use Python 3, it solves a problem they don't have.

RGDS
GARY
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