[Python-ideas] Visually confusable unicode characters in identifiers

[Georg Brandl]

On 10/01/2012 08:10 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:44:42 -0700
>> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> As an example in German, I found a Python book aimed at middle- and
>>> high-schoolers written in German, Python für Kids. You can look inside
>>> it on the Amazon website:
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Python-f%C3%BCr-Kids/dp/3826609514#reader_3826609514
>>
>> Oh but why isn't it named Python für Kinder? :-)
>
> Probably to be "cool" for the "kids". Why is a mobile phone in Germany
> called a "Handy" ?

And why, oh why, do we have to buy our bread rolls at a "Backshop" nowadays...

Georg