[Python-Dev] [OT] carping about irritating people (was: bytes / unicode)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Jun 21 15:17:09 CEST 2010


"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> your base URL is gonna be b'mailto:stephen at xemacs.org', but the
> natural thing the UI will want to do is
>
>     formurl = baseurl + '?subject=うるさいやつだなぁ…'

Incidentally, which irritating person was the topic of this
Japanese-language message to you?

(The subject in Stephen's example message translates roughly as
“(unspecified third person) is an irritating rascal, don't you agree”.)

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Ben Finney



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