> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Craig-Wood
> wrote:
>
>> My initial reaction is that it would be cool to use all those great
>> symbols. A variable called OHM etc!
>
> This is a nice candidate for homoglyph confusion. There's the Greek
> letter omega (U+03A9) Ω and the SI unit symbol (U+2126) Ω, and I think
> some omegas in the mathematical symbols area too.
Under the PEP, identifiers are converted to normal form NFC, and
we have
py> unicodedata.normalize("NFC", u"\u2126")
u'\u03a9'
So, OHM SIGN compares equal to GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA. It can't
be confused with it - it is equal to it by the proposed language
semantics.
Regards,
Martin
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