[Python-ideas] Visually confusable unicode characters in identifiers

[Greg Ewing]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> Oh but why isn't it named Python für Kinder? :-)

It looks like Germans have adopted "kid" as an abbreviation
for "kinder", just like we use it as an abbreviation for
"child". Or maybe we got it from them -- it's closer to
their original word than ours!

They seem to be using our plural, though -- "kids", not
"kidden"...

-- 
Greg