mircea_popescu: where a sequence of eleven Unicode characters would be intended to be rendered as a single colourized glyph showing a multiracial family." << these people fundamentally misunderstand what an alphabet is.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-11-2015#1314736 << they're just fishing for relevancy. who knows, if they do that maybe we don't kick unicode out of computing. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: it probably conflicts with unicode magic packets.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-10-2015#1312599 << unicode is not text. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: yes there ios a known workaround. has been known since 1985. FUCK UNICODE.

mircea_popescu: One key consequence of this is that the interpreter core in Python 3 is far more tolerant of paths that contain Unicode characters on Windows (so, for example, having a non-ASCII character in your username should no longer cause any problems with running Python scripts from your home directory on Windows).

mircea_popescu: make 2.8, zero unicode support. ascii or bust.

mircea_popescu: decimation so for my own education (not following python much) is the 2/3 split primarily centered around unicode vs posix ?

mircea_popescu: PeterL what unicode does trilema spit out that chokes your script ?

mircea_popescu: ⊔ is pronounced /kʌp/ and is Unicode character U+2294.