[Python-3000] PEP 3131 normalization forms (original) (raw)

Ka-Ping Yee python at zesty.ca
Sat May 26 02:14:47 CEST 2007


On Sat, 26 May 2007, Greg Ewing wrote:

Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > NFKC might be a better choice than NFC for normalizing identifiers. > Do we really want "find()" (with the fi-ligature) and "find()" _> (without the fi-ligature) to be two different functions?_

Do we really want to allow ligatures at all?

If we require identifiers in source code to be in NFKC, I believe there won't be any ligatures. The NFKC for the "fi" ligature is the two-letter sequence "fi".

-- ?!ng



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