moving to unicode (was re: PEP)

[psheer at obsidian.co.za]

>> and string literals in Hebrew, then I can see how handy this would be
>> [...]

>    I think you have underestimated the proportion of programmers who
> routinely use non-ASCII representations. Not only do East-Asian

well, consider another reason. besides the non-english chars,
there are thousands of very useful box chars, smileys, math
chars and many other things that make commenting code much
easier.

-paul

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