[Python-ideas] Visually confusable unicode characters in identifiers

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 01.10.12 23:51, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Those examples would be a lot more compelling if there was an
> acceptable way to input those characters. Maybe we could support some
> kind of input method that enabled LaTeX style math notation as used by
> scientists for writing equations in papers?

\u03B1

Java already allows this outside of the string literals. And it 
sometimes causes unpleasant effects.