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The characters you listed are defined in latin-1. They really don't serve as a good example for the urgent need to use unicode.
by xtho 16y ago
The characters you listed are defined in latin-1. They really don't serve as a good example for the urgent need to use unicode.
- arkx 16y agoThey are not in ASCII, and that is the problem. You wouldn't believe how many times I've tripped over Python 2.x's UnicodeDecodeError for example. Moreover, I wasn't searching for the best example -- merely using something I have personal experience of.