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

[Greg Ewing]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/001526.html
> 
> where Guido states that he trusts me that it can be made to work,
> and that "eventually" it needs to be supported.

He says "the tools aren't ready yet", which I take to
mean that Python won't need to support it until all
widely-used editors, email and news software, etc, etc,
reliably support displaying and editing of all
unicode characters. We're clearly a long way from
that situation.

--
Greg