Multibyte Character Surport for Python

[François Pinard]

[Martin v. Löwis]

> So far, it appeared that there is wide agreement that identifiers in
> Python should be ASCII only.  Do you disagree, i.e. do you *really*
> want to use non-ASCII identifiers?

For one, I would *really* like to use letters from my locale in identifiers.
Not everyone is writing with the whole planet as a goal, you know! :-)

There is a lot of in-house development, not meant to be exported, that
would be _so_ much more comfortable if we could use our own language
while programming.  Many years ago, we experienced that university-wide,
by modifying the Pascal compiler so we can use French identifiers whenever
we feel like it (as well as a lot of other software and even hardware),
and we kept modifying compilers while new Pascal versions were released.
Moving on to other sites and languages, my co-workers and I did not try
redoing such patches all the time, everywhere.  Yet, I would deeply like
that Python be on our side, and favourable at restoring our Lost Paradise.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard