PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Paul Boddie]

On 15 May, 16:39, Stefan Behnel <stefan.behnel-n05... at web.de> wrote:
>
> It's difficult to extract this analysis from Java. Most people I know from the
> Java world do not use this feature as it is error prone. Java does not have
> support for *explicit* source encodings, i.e. the local environment settings
> win. This is bound to fail e.g. on a latin-1 system where I would like to work
> with UTF-8 files (which tend to work better on the Unix build server, etc.)

Here's a useful link on this topic:

http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/java.html

A search for "Java source file encoding" on Google provides other
material.

Paul