"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josiah Carlson wrote: > > According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet), > > various languages have adopted a transliteration of their language > > and/or former alphabets into latin. They don't purport to know all of > > the reasons why, and I'm not going to speculate. > > > > Whether or not more languages start using the latin alphabet is a good > > question. Basing judgement on history and likely globalization, it is > > only a matter of time before basically all languages have a > > transcription into the latin alphabet that is taught to all (unless > > China takes over the world). > > That is a very U.S. centric view. I don't share it, but I think it is > pointless to argue against it.
I should have included a ;). Whether or not in the future all languages use the latin alphabet should have little to do with whether Python chooses to support non-latin identifiers in the forthcoming 2.5 or later releases. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
