[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue May 22 00:01:29 CEST 2007

Terry Reedy wrote:

My proposal was that the Unicode characters allowed in Python identifiers be limited to those with a transliteration, either current or to be developed by those who want to use a particular character set.

Japanese has a transliteration to Roman script, but it suffers from ambiguity that typically isn't present in the native written forms of the words (i.e. there are different characters in Kanji which are pronounced the same way, and spelt the same way in hiragana - and it is only the hiragana syllabary which can be mapped to roman characters).

Cheers, Nick.

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