[Edu-sig] More about unicode...

The kinds of lesson plans I'm collecting involve storing proper names in their native / home languages, with round trips twixt browser front ends and SQL back ends, Python a controller. It's especially reassuring, when you're in some foreign country on a hospital bed, in the care of strangers, when you see your own name is at least spelled correctly in the right character set on the monitors, along with all those colorful graphs and whatever (beep beep....). Means maybe they're used to multiple cultures, are worldly wise and well funded? Savvy hospitals probably attract top doctors? Maybe this is like a Federation Starship or something? "Kirk?..." "I think he needs more meds doctors..." [ scene goes dark ]. "Bones?..."