Benefits of unicode identifiers

[bartc]

On 24/11/2017 11:56, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert at gmx.net> writes:
>> However, the main point has been answered - Python already
>> does what is talked about. End of story.
> 
>    Java allowed Unicode in identifiers right from the get-go
>    (1995). I.e., one can write an assignment statement such as
> 
> π = 3.141;

That's great. But how do I type it on my keyboard? How do I view someone 
else's code on my crappy ASCII text editor?

>    . The Java community decided to ignore this and only use
>    latin letters and arabic digits (i.e., »pi1«) and English
>    words, to support the (international) exchange of code.
> 
>    (However, for a beginner's tutorial in German, I might use
>    identifiers based on German words.)


German isn't very challenging apart from a couple of umlauts and that 
funny symbol for ss that looks like a Greek beta. And perhaps in 
Germany, keyboards will already take care of those.

But which keyboards will have π [copied from the one above!]?

Apart perhaps from the ones in Greece, where π might already be heavily 
used in the same way we use 'p'.

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bartc