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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri May 25 09:05:28 CEST 2007

Ruby is a language that presumably has a lot of Japanese users, and it appears to me (I'm not a Ruby person, so I admit this is speculation) that Japanese users have to explicitly choose to use Japanese encoding to run source files encoded in Japanese.

Setting aside all the limitations of Ruby, wouldn't the fact that non-latin-writing Japanese Ruby users live with the command line restriciton in Ruby suggest that they'd be just as willing to live with command line burdens in Python, if they decided to switch to Python?

"Just as willing" is probably the right analysis. It's speculation that the ruby users are happy that they cannot double-click a kcode script in the explorer to run it, or perhaps there is another mechanism in Ruby that avoids this problem - it's also speculation that you have to use this command line option in order to be able to use Japanese identifiers.

Regards, Martin

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