PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

René Fleschenberg rene at korteklippe.de
Tue May 15 09:27:29 EDT 2007


Thorsten Kampe schrieb:
> It has nothing to do with that. It simply allows people to write their 
> own identifier names with their native character set without using 
> dodgy transcriptions (that might not even exist). There is no sense in 
> making people write "ueber" instead of "über". That's 20th century 
> thinking and archaic.

"ueber" at least displays correctly on virtually any computer system in
use today, which for example makes it possible to read and process
tracebacks, something that might actually not only concern developers,
but also end-users.

-- 
René



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