+1 for the pep There are plenty of ways projects can enforce ASCII only if they are worried about "contamination" and since Python supports file encoding anyway, this seems like a fairly minor change.
pre-commit scripts can keep weird encoding out of existing projects and everything else can be based on per-project agreed on standards. For those who complain that they can't read the weird characters, for any reason, maybe you aren't meant to read that stuff? There may be some fragmentation and duplication of effort (A Hindi module X, a Mandarin module X and the English module X) but that seems a small price to pay for letting Python fulfill it's purpose: letting people be expressive and get the job done. People are usually more expressive in their native languages, and thinking in different languages may even expose alternative ways of doing things to the greater Python community. Chris -- "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them." -- P. J. O'Rourke -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
