PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun May 13 22:12:30 EDT 2007


"Alan Franzoni" <alan.franzoni_invalid at geemail.invalid> wrote in message 
news:1u9kz7l2gcz1p.1e0kxqeikfp97.dlg at 40tude.net...
Il Sun, 13 May 2007 17:44:39 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" ha scritto:
|Also, there should be a way to convert source files in any 'exotic'
encoding to a pseudo-intellegibile encoding for any reader, a kind of
translittering (is that a proper english word) system out-of-the-box, not
requiring any other tool that's not included in the Python distro. This
will let people to retain their usual working environments even though
they're dealing with source code with identifiers in a really different
charset.
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When I proposed that PEP3131 include transliteration support, Martin 
rejected the idea.

tjr






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