Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes: > Well, for one, not everybody has an easy way to edit Unicode files. I > expect I'd have to spend half a day downloading new stuff before I > could. If the PEP is implemented, IDLE will be able to honor the encoding declarations. As a side effect, this will allow you to edit UTF-8 files in IDLE. Allowing arbitrary Unicode in identifiers is no challenge, either, except that __dict__ dictionaries may suddenly find Unicode as keys. I'm not sure what other implications this would have, so it definitely is a separate issue. Another issue with allowing Unicode is that a good definition of "letter" must be given (it clearly should not depend on the locale). The Unicode consortium gives guidelines, but those depend on the Unicode version. Regards, Martin
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