[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Atsuo Ishimoto writes:

 > Yes. My question is "Which do you feel comfortable, printing collect
 > glyphs or hex-escaped ASCII ?". I prefer printed glyphs for foreign
 > characters, but I had feeling that western people prefer hex-escaped
 > ASCII in general. But from responses I saw, perhaps this is not big
 > deal.

I think Americans, at least, tend to fear that non-ASCII will be
interpreted as terminal control sequences or highlighted annoyingly in
some way.  Otherwise, they might grumble about the fact that what
they're seeing isn't English, but it doesn't matter whether it's
hex-escaped or kanji.