Unicode and Zipfile problems

[Martin v. Löwis]

gerson.kurz at t-online.de (Gerson Kurz) writes:

> >x = 3.14
> >
> >is different, in Python, from
> >
> >x = 3,14
> 
> Why is it that the number of people that complain in clp about having
> trouble spelling fractions is way, way below the number of people that
> come here with yet another unicode problem?

Because people understand almost understand what floating point
numbers are, but they fail to understand what a character set is.
This, in turn, is because they have been exposed to floating point
numbers for a long time, but never had to deal with character sets.

Regards,
Martin