Thorsten Kampe schrieb: > It has nothing to do with that. It simply allows people to write their > own identifier names with their native character set without using > dodgy transcriptions (that might not even exist). There is no sense in > making people write "ueber" instead of "über". That's 20th century > thinking and archaic.
"ueber" at least displays correctly on virtually any computer system in use today, which for example makes it possible to read and process tracebacks, something that might actually not only concern developers, but also end-users. -- René -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
