Increasing the diversity of people who write Python

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus at gmx.de>:
> Am 28.11.17 um 20:24 schrieb wxjmfauth at gmail.com:
>> 00FF	LETTRE MINUSCULE LATINE Y TRÉMA
>
> WTF is this? The character is correctly called
> "LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS". There is no non-ASCII character
> in this description. Of course, if I translated the Unicode mapping to
> Polish, there would be an even larger number of non-ASCII letters -
> but what good would that be for an IT standard, if the identifiers
> were written in different languages?

The ISO/IEC standards are issued in many languages. French and English
have the strongest footing; French is maybe slightly more primary than
English.

<URL: http://www.iec.ch/tcnews/restricted/2009june/Directives-IECSup-Ed5-1.pdf>


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