PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Anton Vredegoor]

Neil Hodgson wrote:
> Anton Vredegoor:
> 
>> Ouch! Now I seem to be disagreeing with the one who writes my editor. 
>> What will become of me now?
> 
>     It should be OK. I try to keep my anger under control and not cut 
> off the pixel supply at the first stirrings of dissent.

Thanks! I guess I won't have to make the obligatory Sovjet Russia joke 
now :-)

>     It may be an idea to provide some more help for multilingual text 
> such as allowing ranges of characters to be represented as hex escapes 
> or character names automatically. Then someone who only normally uses 
> ASCII can more easily audit patches that could contain non-ASCII characters.

Now that I read about IronPython already supporting some larger 
character set I feel like I'm somewhat caught in a side effect of an 
embrace and extend scheme.

A.