On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Henrik Faber <hfa...@invalid.net> wrote: > If you allow for UTF-8 identifiers you'll have to be horribly careful > what to include and what to exclude. Is the non-breaking space a valid > character for a identifier? Technically it's a different character than > the normal space, so why shouldn't it be? What an awesome idea! > > What about × vs x? Or Ì vs Í vs Î vs Ï vs Ĩ vs Ī vs ī vs Ĭ vs ĭ vs Į vs > į vs I vs İ? Do you think if you need to maintain such code you'll > immediately know the difference between the 13 (!) different "I"s I just > happened to pull out randomly you need to chose and how to get it? What > about Ȝ vs ȝ? Or Ȣ vs ȣ? Or ȸ vs ȹ? Or d vs Ԁ vs ԁ vs ԃ vs Ԃ? Or ց vs g? > Or ս vs u?
Yes, as soon as we add unicode to anything everyone will go insane and write gibberish. -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
