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

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Tue May 22 22:30:50 CEST 2007

On 5/22/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

[Referring to my alternate alternative proposal -- user-controlled transliteration, rather than unicode escapes in identifiers]

>> Then I don't understand your above proposal. I thought you were >> proposing to replace all non-ASCII characters with some ASCII >> form on import of the module. What do you mean by "readable >> internal representation"?

That ASCII form -- and the requirement that it still be something humans don't mind reading -- which in turn means that it can't be done as a single one-size-fits-all algorithm; users would have to be able to choose (and perhaps locally modify) it.

-jJ

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