Giovanni Bajo wrote: > Sure, but I can't find OS X listed as a prerequisite for using Python. So, > while I don't give a damn if those symbols are going to be supported by > Python, > I don't think the plain ASCII version should be deprecated. There are too many > situations where it's still useful (coding across old terminals and whatnot).
I think we should limit the discussion to allowing non-ascii symbols *alternatively* to (combinations of) ascii chars. Nobody should be forced to use them since not all editors/OSs and keyboards support it. Think about moving from ASCII to LATIN-1 or UTF-8 as similar to moving from ISO 646 to ASCII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_trigraph). I think it is a legitimate question, after UTF-8 becomes more and more supported. Editors could provide means to easily enter these symbols once programming languages start supporting them: Automatic expansion of ascii combinations, Alt-Combinations (like in OS-X) or popup menus with all supported symbols. -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
