[Python-3000] I18N identifiers (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at ctypes.org
Fri Mar 16 15:36:03 CET 2007


Martin v. Löwis schrieb:

Giovanni Bajo schrieb:

What is the status of I18N identifiers? Has any progress been made? If not, I'd like to write a PEP, and mentor a SoC student to work on that (if one shows up).

Is there any agreement over this feature in the first place? This counter-question may be an answer to my original question. If there is no consensus, it is unlikely that anything had been done. I won't discuss the specific concerns now; a PEP needs to be written first.

Since people have voiced their opinions, let me add mine:

As a professional programmer I would never use I18N identifiers.

OTOH, as native German and father of some children I have a hard time explaining to them why they cannot have a variable named 'Bücher' if they are writing a program that counts books, for example ;-).

Thomas



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