Duncan Booth wrote: > Alexander Schmolck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> scheme (major implementations such as PLT and the upcoming standard), >> the most popular common lisp implementations, haskell[1], fortress[2], >> perl 6 and I should imagine (but haven't checked) all new java or .NET >> based languages (F#, IronPython, JavaFX, Groovy, etc.) as well -- the >> same goes for XML-based languages. >> > > Just to confirm that: IronPython does accept non-ascii identifiers. From > "Differences between IronPython and CPython": > >> IronPython will compile files whose identifiers use non-ASCII >> characters if the file has an encoding comment such as "# -*- coding: >> utf-8 -*-". CPython will not compile such a file in any case.
Sounds like CPython would better follow IronPython here. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list