Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 09:35 am, Dan Sommers wrote:

> We (this mailing list, or maybe it was the python-ideas mailing list)
> just had a thread about non-ASCII characters in identifiers.  One of the
> main argument against is the confusables (A vs Α vs А).  Sufficient
> tooling, however, could render (pun intended) that argument moot.  Not
> too long ago, one of the main arguments against was that not everyone's
> tools could even render Α or А.

Technically speaking, they still might not. My editor can render both
Cyrillic and Greek characters, but does a terrible job at Chinese and
Korean because I don't have the font support. So all I see is a series
of "missing character" boxes. There may be folks who don't have installed
fonts that support Cyrillic or Greek.



-- 
Steven