> Thanks for these data. This mostly reflects my experience with German > and French users: some people would like to use non-ASCII identifiers > if they could, other argue they never would as a matter of principle. > Of course, transliteration is more straight-forward.
FWIW, being French, I don't remember hearing any programmer wish (s)he could use non-ASCII identifiers, in any programming language. But arguably translitteration is very straight-forward (although a bit lossless at times ;-)). I think typeability and reproduceability should be weighted carefully. It's nice to have the real letter delta instead of "delta", but how do I type it again on my non-Greek keyboard if I want to keep consistent naming in the program? ASCII is ethnocentric, but it probably can be typed easily with every device in the world. Also, as a matter of fact, if I type an identifier with an accented letter inside, I would like Python to warn me, because it would be a typing error on my part. Maybe this should be an option at the beginning of any source file (like encoding currently). Or is this overkill? _______________________________________________ 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