[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> | I'm not aware of an algorithm that
> | can do transliteration for all Unicode characters.
> 
> Were you proposing to allow all Unicode characters in Python names?-)

Not sure how to interpret your question: no, I'm not proposing
to allow all Unicode characters, just a selected subset (but then,
I don't know a universal transliteration algorithm for that subset,
either).

> | Therefore, I cannot add transliteration into the PEP.
> 
> Non sequitor.  How I read this is "Because I do not know how to do 
> something that does not need to be done, I cannot do something that could 
> be done."

No. You should read it "because I don't know how to do it, *I* will
not do it".

> My proposal was that the Unicode characters allowed in Python identifiers 
> be limited to those with a transliteration, either current or to be 
> developed by those who want to use a particular character set.

But what would be the purpose of doing so? Mere existence of a
transliteration algorithm surely isn't what you are after.

> While the PEPs acceptance as-is (for which I congratulate you for your 
> persistence) makes transliteration moot as an acceptibility enhancement, it 
> does not change its desireability for use purposes.  To repeat: without it, 
> national character identifiers will tend to ghettoize code.  While this 
> might be a minor issue for Chinese, it will be a bigger issue for people 
> writing in Thai or Ibo or other languages with small pioneering groups of 
> Python programmers.

What I fail to see is how existence of a transliteration algorithm would
remove the ghettoization. It must be used somehow, no?

Regards,
Martin