PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[sjdevnull at yahoo.com]

Stefan Behnel wrote:
> sjdevnull at yahoo.com wrote:
> > I even sometimes
> > read code snippets on email lists and websites from my handheld, which
> > is sadly still memory-limited enough that I'm really unlikely to
> > install anything approaching a full set of Unicode fonts.
>
> One of the arguments against this PEP was that it seemed to be impossible to
> find either transliterated identifiers in code or native identifiers in Java
> code using a web search. So it is very unlikely that you will need to upgrade
> your handheld as it is very unlikely for you to stumble into such code.

Sure, if the feature isn't going to be used then it won't present
problems.  I can't really see much of an argument for a PEP that isn't
going to be used, though, and if it is used then it's worthwhile to
think about the implications of having code that many common systems
simply can't deal with (either displaying it incorrectly or actually
corrupting files that pass through them).