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As I said in another Python 3 HN thread, developers from cultures whose languages can be fully satisfied with the Latin-1 charset (which is the absolute majorit
by kozak 10y ago
As I said in another Python 3 HN thread, developers from cultures whose languages can be fully satisfied with the Latin-1 charset (which is the absolute majority of the developed world) just don't get how important and essential it is to have a proper (pervasive and implicit) implementation of Unicode at the language level.
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- bildung 10y ago> (which is the absolute majority of the developed world) I'm a German writing web apps using Django, and I constantly got UnicodeDecodeErrors when mingling with older browsers, uploads from Windows users, copy-pasted content from word processors etc. The problem isn't (only) whether Latin-1 has all the characters, it's what encoding gets thrown at your software. Python 3 was a blessing for handling user-provided input.
- minitech 10y agoA sweeping generalization made even less true lately with emoji.