PEP: Defining Python Source Code Encodings

[Carel Fellinger]

M.-A. Lemburg <mal at lemburg.com> wrote:
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>        5. variable names and other identifiers will be reencoded into
>           8-bit strings using the file encoding to assure backward
>           compatibility with the existing implementation

>           ISSUE: 

>               Should we restrict identifiers to ASCII ?

Me being stupid, I wonder how I'm going to access goodies hidden in
foreign alfabet scripts.  Say GooodyScript.py is encoded in Japanese
and I'm to use the classes and functions in them that have Japanese
names, how am I supposed to call them in my Dutch encoded script?
Is there a fool proof conversion from Dutch to Japanese spelling?
And is it easy to find the proper transcriptions of those Japanese
names, or do I have to start some external program to transcribe
that Japanese script?

Sorry if all this are standard questions related to utf etc, I haven't
found the time to read up on this yet.
-- 
groetjes, carel