Python Unicode handling wins again -- mostly
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Sat Nov 30 00:37:17 EST 2013
In article <529967dc$0$29993$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > The whole idea of ligatures like fi is purely typographic.
>
> In English, that's correct. I'm not sure if we can generalise that to all
> languages that have ligatures. It also partly depends on how you define
> ligatures.
I was speaking specifically of "ligatures like fi" (or, if you prefer,
"ligatures like ό". By which I mean those things printers invented
because some letter combinations look funny when typeset as two distinct
letters.
There are other kinds of ligatures. For example, Å“ is a dipthong. It
makes sense (well, to me, anyway) that upper case œ is Έ.
Well, anyway, that's the truth according to me. Apparently the Unicode
Consortium disagrees. So, who am I to argue with the people who decided
that I needed to be able to type a "PILE OF POO" character. Which, by
the way, I can find in my "Character Viewer" input helper, but which MT
Newswatcher doesn't appear to be willing to insert into text. I guess
Basic Multilingual Poo would have been OK but Astral Poo is too much for
it.
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