PEP: Defining Python Source Code Encodings

[Neil Hodgson]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
> I suspect that if foreign characters are allowed in
> identifiers, the recommended practice would be
> to make each feature available under an ASCII
> name too.

   Java and C# allow the use of Unicode escape sequences in variables so you
could have something like:

   double \u03C0 = 3.0;

   This would be a pain to work with but editors can be set up to show this
as the greek letter pi. Another common technique is to allow aliasing
statements such as VB's
    Declare Function CreateWindowEx Lib "USER32" _
    Alias "AnotherNameThatCouldIncludeWeirdCharacters"

   Neil