OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

[Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>]

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Hi,

lets start a python rant. I love to hate this language. :-)

Am Mo den 14. Feb 2011 um 14:14 schrieb Jakub Wilk:
> >$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"'
> ><unicode pound sign>
[...]
> >$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"' | cat
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> >UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in
> >position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> This is the expected behaviour. Incidentally, it has nothing to do
> with UTF-8. You'll get the same result if you use a locale with a
> legacy encoding.

I see. It is funny to see python lovers to blame other for the bugs in
the language.

~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";'
~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";' | cat

Both gives the same result, a '£' sign as expected.

> * Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, 2011-02-14, 12:42:
> >Excellent, I look forward to the removal of python.  I always
> >hated that language anyway.

I hate them more. :-)

Regards
   Klaus
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