On 29 October 2016 at 18:19, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: >> For better or worse, it may be emoji that drive that change ;-) > > I suspect that the 100 million or so Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and > Indian programmers who have had systems that have no trouble > whatsoever handling non-ASCII for as long they've used computers will > drive that change.
My apologies. You are of course absolutely right. I'm curious to know how easy it is for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indian programmers to use *ASCII* characters. I have no idea in practice whether the current basically entirely-ASCII nature of programming languages is as much a problem for them as I imagine Unicode characters would be for me. I really hope it isn't... Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
