Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Neil Hodgson]

Martin v. Loewis:

> PEP 263 will introduce the notion of source encodings - without this,
> it wouldn't even be possible to parse the source code, anymore. The
> PEP, over months, had a question in it asking whether non-ASCII
> identifiers should be allowed (the follow-up question would then be:
> which ones?), and nobody ever spoke up requesting such a feature.
>
> It is a real surprise for me that suddenly people want this.

   I've said several times in the past that Python should support non-ASCII
identifiers, partly to encourage people whose native character set is not
Roman based and partly to facilitate interop with other environments such as
Java and .NET that allow non-ASCII characters in identifiers.

   Neil