Re: [Python-ideas] Visually confusable unicode characters in identifiers

Ben Finney writes:

Solve the keyboard input problem in the OS layer – as someone who anticipates working with non-ASCII characters must already do – and you solve it for Python code as well.

That simply isn't true for symbol characters and Greek letters. I still let either TeX or XEmacs translate TeX macros for me. I don't even know how to type an integral sign in Mac OS X Terminal (conveniently, that is -- of course there's always the character palette), and if I wanted directed quotation marks (I don't), I'd just use ASCII quotes and let XEmacs translate those, too. There ought to be a standard way to get those symbols and punctuation, preferably ASCII-based, on any terminal, using the standard Python interpreter.