[Tutor] why is unichr(sys.maxunicode) blank?

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

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> From: Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
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> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 3:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] why is unichr(sys.maxunicode) blank?
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> On 19/05/13 02:45, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote about locales:
> 
>>  It is pretty sick that all these things can be adjusted separately (what is 
> the use of having: danish collation, russian case conversion, english decimal 
> sign, japanese codepage ;-)
> 
> Well obviously there is no point to such a mess, but the ability to make a mess 
> comes from having the flexibility to have less silly combinations.
> 
> By the way, I'm not sure what you mean by "pretty sick", since in 
> Australian slang "sick" can mean "fantastic, excellent", as 
> in "Mate, that's a pretty sick sub-woofer!".

I was under the impression that all these locale categories created a degree of flexibility that is far greater than one would need in daily practice. Eryksun's non-esoteric (note the lack of use of the term "sick" ;-) example convinced me that this is not the case. So all in all, the flexibility is sick after all, not in the literal sense, but in the Australian sense of the word.