[Python-Dev] [OT] carping about irritating people (was: bytes / unicode)
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Jun 21 20:20:43 CEST 2010
Ben Finney writes:
> "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?
(Kudos to Nick.) "Urusai" is also used to refer to the finicky. So,
the RFC-toting pedant. Ie, me.
> (The subject in Stephen's example message translates roughly as
> "(unspecified third person)
Not quite. The subject of the copula, if omitted, is entirely
context-dependent.
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