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

Daniel Stutzbach daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com
Mon May 14 20:31:42 CEST 2007

On 5/13/07, Guillaume Proux <gproux+py3000 at gmail.com> wrote:

Is this a bijective translation ? How good is most people latin character reading ability among Hebrew speakers? From the beginning, I can tell from experience that Japanese people have great difficulties in reading english or even transliterated japanese (which is never good anyway because of homonyms)

Unicode identifiers have been proposed before:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/i18n-sig/2001-February/000741.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-May/143901.html

Based on those threads, it seems that two empirical criteria that would sway many in the Python community are:

  1. Evidence of positive use and results from languages that already support Unicode identifiers, such as Java, and/or

  2. Support of Unicode identifiers in languages where the primary language author's native tongue is not based on Latin characters (notably Yukihiro Matsumoto's Ruby).

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