[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Alternative Implementation for PEP 292:SimpleString Substitutions

[François Pinard]

[Terry Reedy]

> [Unicode] is heavily weighted in favor of efficiently representing
> Chinese and inefficiently representing English.

You undoubtedly forgot the smiley! :-)

Many people consider that Unicode, or UTF-8 at least, is strongly
favouring English (boldly American) over any other script or language.
If it has not been so, Americans would never have promoted it so much,
and would have rather shown an infinite and eternal reluctance...

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard