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How to waste computer memory?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Mar 17 18:38:37 EDT 2016 
On 17/03/2016 21:26, BartC wrote:
> On 17/03/2016 21:11, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Like every language *including* English. You can pretend that ASCII is
>>> enough, but you do lose some information.
>>
>> Hold it, I'll quickly update my résumé before we resume the
>> conversation. What does this exposé expose? At least it gives a coup de
>> grâce to ASCII with grace.
>
> 'ANSI' (Windows code page 1252), will do most of what ASCII doesn't, as
> far as western Europe (and the US, Canada, Australia and probably the
> rest of the Americas) is concerned. Including euro and pound (€,£)
> currency symbols.
>
> ANSI could have been equivalent to the first 256 Unicode code points,
> rather than just 128, if Unicode hadn't squandered codes 128 to 159 on
> even more control codes, when it's difficult to see a use for most of
> the 32 that ASCII already reserves.
>

Why would you care?  I swear blind that you stated a few days back that 
you, and hence your newly published language, couldn't care about 
unicode.  Have I got it wrong?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence
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