> 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?
I'm also French and I must say that I agree with you. In my case, the most important thing is to be able to manage the _data_ in the good encoding. I'm currently trying to implement a little search engine in python (to improve my skills mainly) and the biggest problem I have to face is how to manage encoding. Some web pages are in French, in German, in English, etc. and it take me a lot of time to handle this problem correctly. I think it's more useful to be able to manipulate simply the _data_ than to have accents in identifiers. -- Derrière chaque bogue, il y a un développeur, un homme qui s'est trompé. (Bon, OK, parfois ils s'y mettent à plusieurs). _______________________________________________ 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
