Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Neil Hodgson]

John Roth:

> 2. All identifiers MUST be expressed in the character set of
> a single language (treating the various latin derived languages
> as one for simplicity.) That doesn't mean that only one language
> can be used for a module, only that a particular identifer must make
> lexical sense in a specific language.

   Do you have a reason for this restriction? I see there being reasons for
using identifiers made from non-Roman (such as Japanese) and Roman letters
when applying naming conventions or when basing names on external entities
such as database identifiers. Say I have a database with a column called
[JapaneseWord] and want derived entities in a (possibly automatically
generated) form such as txt[JapaneseWord] and verified[JapaneseWord].

   In mathematical English code I would quite like to use greek letters for
pi and sigma and so forth to make the code more similar to how I'd document
it.

   Neil