[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicit conversions).

[Adam Olsen]

On 10/30/05, François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> All development is done in house by French people.  All documentation,
> external or internal, comments, identifier and function names,
> everything is in French.  Some of the developers here have had a long
> programming life, while they only barely read English.  It is surely
> a constant frustration, for some of us, having to mangle identifiers by
> ravelling out their necessary diacritics.  It does not look good, it
> does not smell good, and in many cases, mangling identifiers
> significantly decreases program legibility.

Hear, hear!  Not all the world uses english, and restricting them to
latin characters simply means it's not readable in any language.  It
doesn't make it any more readable for those of us who only understand
english.

+1 on internationalized identifiers.

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Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus