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

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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}
";'
~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "x{00a3}
";' | 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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OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)
 

On 2011-02-14, Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de> wrote:
> ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "x{00a3}
";'
> ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "x{00a3}
";' | cat
> Both gives the same result, a '£' sign as expected.

And what's the value in that demonstration? Yes, you can treat UTF8 like a
bytestream. And the thread was about the problems that can arise of this.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern


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

On ma, 2011-02-14 at 14:37 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> lets start a python rant. I love to hate this language. :-)

Let's not.

Let's not rant about any languages, or tools, or desktop environments.
Let's be constructive on Debian mailing lists, shall we?

We have plenty of side-channels for rants, sarcasm, snide remarks,
passive-aggressiveness, and other forms of anti-social behavior, let's
use those instead.



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

* Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>, 2011-02-14, 14:37:

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


Let me try...

$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "x{00a3}
";' | isutf8
stdin: line 1, char 1, byte offset 1: invalid UTF-8 code


But I don't blame Perl for that. It's documented behavior, so I can
either live with that or use another language.


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

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Am Mo den 14. Feb 2011 um 15:15 schrieb Lars Wirzenius:
> On ma, 2011-02-14 at 14:37 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > lets start a python rant. I love to hate this language. :-)
>
> Let's not.

'Till here it is personal desire.

> Let's not rant about any languages, or tools, or desktop environments.
> Let's be constructive on Debian mailing lists, shall we?

You are true. I just couldn't resist if someone was trying to blame all
other than the one that has the bug.

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

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:02:11PM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2011-02-14, Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de> wrote:
> > ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "x{00a3}
";'
> > ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "x{00a3}
";' | cat
> > Both gives the same result, a '£' sign as expected.
>
> And what's the value in that demonstration? Yes, you can treat UTF8 like a
> bytestream. And the thread was about the problems that can arise of this.

Er, and tell me where exactly it makes sense to allow one encoding but not
another for a "bytestream"?

It appears that Python has a nasty bug where it ignores the encoding if
isatty(stdout) returns 0. So let's go fixing or reporting that rather than
arguing about it.

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// Never attribute to stupidity what can be
// adequately explained by malice.


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