On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 09:35 am, Dan Sommers wrote: > We (this mailing list, or maybe it was the python-ideas mailing list) > just had a thread about non-ASCII characters in identifiers. One of the > main argument against is the confusables (A vs Α vs А). Sufficient > tooling, however, could render (pun intended) that argument moot. Not > too long ago, one of the main arguments against was that not everyone's > tools could even render Α or А.
Technically speaking, they still might not. My editor can render both Cyrillic and Greek characters, but does a terrible job at Chinese and Korean because I don't have the font support. So all I see is a series of "missing character" boxes. There may be folks who don't have installed fonts that support Cyrillic or Greek. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
