Re:The lack of a case against Python 3
by belvoran on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:49AM
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His argument should rather be written like "This is America, you are not allowed even to write your last name normally" - then it sounds stupid/irrational/funny enough.
Re:The lack of a case against Python 3
by Xylakant on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @09:22AM
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which seems to be the case in switzerland: If you want to apply for swiss citizenship, your name needs to be compatible with ISO-8859-15 because the central registry does not support unicode: https://www.dasmagazin.ch/2016/09/02/ic-bin-kein-schweizer/ (sorry, german only, which seems oddly apt)
Re:The lack of a case against Python 3
by vuanotinn on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:01AM
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That sounds like a good way of keeping undesirable people out without being accused of "racism"
Re:The lack of a case against Python 3
by Grishnakh on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @04:36PM
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I don't know of any languages that don't have a Latinized written form: Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic, etc. all have Latinized forms.
Re:The lack of a case against Python 3
by softwarelimits on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:52AM
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Üክጎርöዕቿ የዪöጌረቿጠነ ልዪቿ öሀቿዪዪäፕቿዕ.
It's a HUGE problem in Python 2. Python 3 was needed. If you don't think the Unicode change was needed and you actually work with texts in any form, you should also stop developing "for web scale" before fixing this. Because you're actually focusing on a small percentage of the world population on your software.
For me Zed's argument sounds like "This is America, speak English". Specially with his quotes around "international".