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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 16:25:58 CEST 2010


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> "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”.)

Given what he said about the base URL, it would appear to be a
self-deprecating self-description. Nicely done :)

(I can pronounce that subject line, but I didn't know what it meant
without the translation).

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia


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