On 5/24/07, Guillaume Proux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is my understanding that the only remaining objection for unicode > in identifier is for claimed security issues.
It isn't strictly security; when I've been burned by cut-and-paste that turned out to be an unexpected character, it didn't cause damage, but it did take me a long time to debug. > Regarding the the notion you should be able to give a single > accepted charset, the problem arises that restricting charsets on a > global scope (from a global command line flag or a site.py file) will > prevent me for example to freely mix English, French, Greek and > Japanese in the same large project For most people, the appearance of a Greek or Japanese (let alone both) character would be more likely to indicate a typo. If you know that your project is using both languages, then just allow both; the point is that you have made an explicit decision to do so. -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
