PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

[Gregor Horvath]

Istvan Albert schrieb:

> Here is something that just happened and relates to this subject: I
> had to help a student run some python code on her laptop, she had
> Windows XP that hid the extensions. I wanted to set it up such that
> the extension is shown. I don't have XP in front of me but when I do
> it takes me 15 seconds to do it. Now her Windows was set up with some
> asian fonts (Chinese, Korean not sure), looked extremely unfamiliar
> and I had no idea what the menu systems were. We have spent quite a
> bit of time figuring out how to accomplish the task. I had her read me
> back the options, but something like "hide extensions" comes out quite
> a bit different. Surprisingly tedious and frustrating experience.
> 

So the solution is to forbid Chinese XP ?

Gregor