[Python-ideas] Proposal for default character representation

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 13.10.16 17:50, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Solution: Abolish most of the control characters. Let's define a brand
> new character encoding with no "alphabetical garbage". These
> characters will be sufficient for everyone:
>
> * [2] Formatting characters: space, newline. Everything else can go.
> * [8] Digits: 01234567
> * [26] Lower case Latin letters a-z
> * [2] Vital social media characters: # (now officially called "HASHTAG"), @
> * [2] Can't-type-URLs-without-them: colon, slash (now called both
> "SLASH" and "BACKSLASH")
>
> That's 40 characters that should cover all the important things anyone
> does - namely, Twitter, Facebook, and email. We don't need punctuation
> or capitalization, as they're dying arts and just make you look
> pretentious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Radix-50