PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Aldo Cortesi  <aldo at nullcube.com> wrote:
> [ ... ] There is no general way to detect homoglyphs and "convert them to
>a normal form". Observe:
>
>import unicodedata
>print repr(unicodedata.normalize("NFC", u"\u2160"))
>print u"\u2160"
>print "I"

FYI, those come out as two very clearly distinct glyphs in the
default terminal font I have here. (The ROMAN NUMERAL ONE has no
cross-bars, and is more likely to be confused with "|".)

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