Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[Martin v. Löwis]

python at dohao.org (Wenshan Du) writes:

>   Iike Python, but it is not very good at doing with multibyte
> character. So, I rebuilt the pythoncore source code ,make a patch for
> Python 2.2.1. Now, you can name you variables, class or function with
> multibyte character, like Chinese, Kerea or Japanese etc. Python will
> not displasy messages like "\xc4\xe3\xba\xc3" when you print a string
> with multibyte character or search a database like ACCESS with mxODBC.
> I name it Multi Byte Character Surport Patch(MBCSP). Now I like Python
> better. Enjoy !

So far, it appeared that there is wide agreement that identifiers in
Python should be ASCII only. Do you disagree, i.e. do you *really*
want to use non-ASCII identifiers?

Allowing non-ASCII in strings is a different issue - work is in
progress to support that.

Regards,
Martin