[Python-3000] PEP 3131 roundup

[Josiah Carlson]

Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> In other words - instead of endless discussions of hypotheticals, let 
> people vote with their feet. Because I can already tell that as far as 
> this mailing list goes, there will never be a consensus on this issue, 
> due to basic value differences.

If the underlying runtime were written to handle unicode identifiers,
the Python runtime could be easily modified to discern the command used
to execute it.  Alternatively, if we went with a command-line option,
Python could easily ship with a script called 'upython' (on *nix,
upython.bat on Windows) that automatically runs python with the proper
arguments.


> 2) My second proposal is to drop all discussions of bidirectional 
> support, since I think it's a red herring. So far, I haven't heard 
> anyone whose native language is RTL lobbying for support of their 
> language. Most of the vocal proponents of 3131 have been mainly 
> concerned with asian languages. The people who are mainly bringing up 
> the issue of Bidi are the people arguing against 3131, using it as the 
> basis of an "excluded middle" argument that says that since its too 
> difficult to do Bidi properly, then it's too difficult to do unicode 
> identifiers.

While there has been discussion about how to handle bidi issues, I don't
believe I've read anything saying "since bidi is hard, lets not do
unicode at all".

 - Josiah