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Socoder -> On Topic -> Unicode vs Code |
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| Sun, 19 Dec 2021, 06:27 | |
HoboBen
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After the ’’Place the Countries’’ thread I remembered some of you guys (Afr0 especially) are always interested in weird Welsh language stuff so here's my trouble with Welsh and Python 2! Hope its of interest Linkage
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| Sun, 19 Dec 2021, 06:27 | |
Jayenkai
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That's not specific to Python though, is it? Pretty much any 8-bit language would be natively lacking it, and you'd need to resort to SYMBOL/Otherwise to implement it. JSE doesn't do >chr(255) either, but that's less capability, and more down to how I slapped together 30+ font styles into one ginormous web font!! Didn't really leave a lot of space for much more than the basics. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!'' 
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| Sun, 19 Dec 2021, 15:41 | |
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HoboBen
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Python 2 *wasn't* 8 bit - it supported Unicode. Just really really awkwardly!!! Even in C, you can usually treat everything as utf-8 and it's fine too -=-=- blog | work | code | more code |
| Sun, 19 Dec 2021, 17:19 | |
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Jayenkai
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Yeah, that transition period was a git. I remember my first experience with Unicode being 99% frustration, to the point where I avoided touching Unicode at all for about a decade. .. Was it mobile dev? I think it was.. The little Orange SPV that ran Windows Mobile. I definitely coded a few games for that, and .. Yes, it was when doing Stringy Things for it. I eventually gave up trying to use the String functions altogether, and made my own Byte-based ASCII numbering system. The Unicode was just awful on there.. There are other habits I have from that time, too, like how I tend to use single-dim arrays and maths instead of properly using multi-dim arrays. And the whole "Multiply n by a pre-calculated 1/x, instead of doing n/x" .. Ugh.. Such slowdown when you try to divide.. Yeah, those are bad baad baaaad memories.. I was just suggesting 8-bits because those didn't have any kind of Unicode.. Heck, ASCII wasn't even standard, back then. It constantly surprises me that 8-bit systems were as big as they were in Japan, given such a huge limitation of only 256 chrs, which were taken up by a ton of english letters. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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