[Python-3000] PEP: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Collin Winter]

On 5/1/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> >> Title: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers
> >
> > Isn't this already blacklisted in PEP 3099?
>
> It's not clear to me. That was in response to a suggestion
> that non-ASCII symbols will be used in the syntax of Python,
> i.e. in a way making it mandatory to be able to type these
> symbols.

Reading from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/001474.html,
the message that prompted this particular addition to PEP 3099, "I
want good Unicode support for string literals and comments. Everything
else in the language ought to be ASCII."

Identifiers aren't string literals or comments.

Collin Winter