PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[HYRY]

> That is a good point, but I'd like to ask out of curiosity, at what age
> do children generally learn pinyin? (Assuming you speak Mandarin. If
> not, replace pinyin with the name of whatever phonetic transliteration
> is common in your region.) Granted, pinyin shoehorned into ASCII loses
> its tone marks, but the result would still be more mnemonic than an
> English word that the student has to learn.
>
Yes, we use Pinyin, and add a number to deal with tone marks, it is
better than English words, but as a Chinese, reading pingyin is much
slower than reading HanZi.