<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>US English is too broad.<br><br></div>I propose everybody talk like in the "Dallas" TV series<br></div>and wear mandatory cowboy hats.</div><div><br></div><div>(Or was this mail just a dream?)<br></div><div><br></div>Stephan<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-11-23 15:29 GMT+01:00 Carl Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carl.input@gmail.com" target="_blank">carl.input@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Can't we just tell everyone to speak US English, and go back to ASCII? It would be a less painful migration.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-5829152207940569074gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115);font-style:italic;line-height:18px"><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">-- Carl Smith</font></span><br></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(115,115,115);font-style:italic;line-height:18px"><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace"><a href="mailto:carl.input@gmail.com" target="_blank">carl.input@gmail.com</a></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 November 2017 at 14:16, Chris Angelico <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rosuav@gmail.com" target="_blank">rosuav@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Mikhail V <<a href="mailto:mikhailwas@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikhailwas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Well, then there is some bitter irony in this, so it allows pretty<br>
> much everything,<br>
> but does not allow me to beautify code with hyphens.<br>
> I can fully understand the wish to use non-latin scripts in strings or comments.<br>
> As for identifiers, IMO, apart from latin letters and underscore, the<br>
> first unicode candidate<br>
> I would add is U+2010. And probably the LAST one I would add.<br>
><br>
<br>
Fortunately for the world, you're not the one who decided which<br>
characters were permitted in Python identifiers. The ability to use<br>
non-English words for function/variable names is of huge value; the<br>
ability to use a hyphen is of some value, but not nearly as much.<br>
<br>
Can this thread move to python-list? Or, better, to<br>
python-rants-about-unicode-lis<wbr>t, to which I don't subscribe?<br>
<br>
ChrisA<br>
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