Allowing non-ASCII identifiers

[Paul Prescod]

Dietrich Epp wrote:

> 
> I personally think that Unicode identifiers would be catastrophic.  

This is an overstatement. One of the great things about Python is that 
it borrows from other langauges. VB and C# for sure and I think Java 
allow non-ASCII identifiers and there was no catastrophe. VB has its 
problems but Unicode identifiers is not a big one.

I am +0 on this proposal because I really doubt it will cause me big 
problems and at least some foreign language speakers claim it will make 
their lives much easier. If they post to c.l.py asking for help with 
code I can't read I'll tell them I can't read it. If they write 
extension modules I can't use I'll just ask them to put an ASCII API 
alongside their Unicode one (language is likely to be a bigger 
readability problem than encoding anyhow)

  Paul Prescod