PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Eric Brunel]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 02:14:58 +0200, Steven D'Aprano  
<steven at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:09:30 +0200, Eric Brunel wrote:
>
>> Joke aside, this just means that I won't ever be able to program math in
>> ADA, because I have absolutely no idea on how to do a 'pi' character on
>> my keyboard.
>
> Maybe you should find out then? Personal ignorance is never an excuse for
> rejecting technology.

My "personal ignorance" is fine, thank you; how is yours?: there is no  
keyboard *on Earth* allowing to type *all* characters in the whole Unicode  
set. So my keyboard may just happen to provide no means at all to type a  
greek 'pi', as it doesn't provide any to type Chinese, Japanese, Korean,  
Russian, Hebrew, or whatever character set that is not in usage in my  
country. And so are all keyboards all over the world.

Have I made my point clear or do you require some more explanations?
-- 
python -c "print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in  
'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17l8(%,5.Z*(93-965$l7+-'])"