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0 pointsdownerending6y ago0 comments

Kind of an odd slam, given that Python (and most other widely used languages) predated Unicode.

In any case, I think the jury is still out on whether Unicode in the primary string type is a good idea.

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Didn’t C# come out after Unicode (1990s vs 2000)? And they still didn’t implement it properly. Instead, they went with the horrible UCS-2 because it made interfacing with the Windows API easier (it uses wchar_t (16-bit) and UCS-2).

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0 pointsdownerending6y ago0 comments

Kind of an odd slam, given that Python (and most other widely used languages) predated Unicode.

In any case, I think the jury is still out on whether Unicode in the primary string type is a good idea.

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colejohnson666y ago

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