Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Oct 25 14:05:09 EDT 2013
On 25/10/2013 07:14, wxjmfauth at gmail.com wrote:
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>
> Use one of the coding schemes endorsed by Unicode.
As I personally know nothing about unicode for the unenlightened such as
myself please explain this statement with respect to the fsr.
>
> If a dev is not able to see a non ascii char may use 10
> bytes more than an ascii char
Are you saying that an ascii char takes a byte but a non ascii char
takes up to 11? If yes please state where the evidence of this is. If
no please state what you are saying.
> or a dev is not able to
> see there may be a regression of a factor 1, 2, 3, 5 or
> more simply by using non ascii char, I really do not see
> now I can help.
Are you saying that the fsr causes a speed regression of this order? If
yes please state where the evidence of this is. If no please state what
you are saying.
>
> Neither I can force people to understand unicode.
Very true, I certainly don't.
>
> I recieved a ton a private emails, even from core
> devs
Please provide examples of these. If you have to name names, out of
courtesy all you neeed do is ensure that they're given copies of
anything that you say.
> and as one wrote, this has not been seriously
> tested.
Surely any core dev would simply have raised an issue on the bug
tracker? Why are they sending you private emails on this subject?
> Even today on the misc. lists some people
> are suggesting to write to add more tests.
What are these misc. lists? Why suggest, why not write?
>
> All the tools I'm aware of, are using unicode very
> smoothly (even "utf-8 tools"), Python not.
Please provide evidence to support this statement.
>
> That's the status. This FSR fails. Period.
Please provide evidence to support this statement.
>
> jmf
>
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