Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <mailman.1020884595.5671.python-list at python.org>,
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

| If many people had experienced the pleasure of naming variables properly
| for their national language while programming, I guess most of them would be
| rather enthusiastic proponents on having this capability with Python, today.
| As very few people experienced it, they can only imagine, without really
| knowing, all the comfort that results.

maybe people are just using it and they don't know that it's not
supposed to work.

  Python 2.1.3 (#1, Apr 20 2002, 10:14:34)
  [GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
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  >>> pää = 4
  >>> print pää
  4


  -- erno