On 6/11/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chinese in particular you would recognize as "not what I expected". > > Cyrillic you might not recognize, because it looks like ASCII letters.
> Please take a look at http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python > In what way does that look like ASCII letters? Cyrillic is > *significantly* different from Latin. In long stretches of long words, yes. In isolated abbreviations, not so much. From the second key-value pair in the top box, the value is интерпретатор I can tell that isn't english, but I have to slow down a bit before I recognize that it isn't ASCII. (The "N" is backwards, and the "n"-looking thing between the "p"s isn't quite an n.) нтерретатор I wouldn't recognize at all (except that for the next few weeks, I might know to check). One reason this matters -- even when the original author had good intentions -- is that I edit my code as text, rather than graphics. I will often retype rather than cutting and pasting. Since тор and нтер are not the same as the visually similar Top and HTep, that will eventually cause problems. If I can say "I accept Latin-1, but not Cyrillic", then I won't have this problem; at the very least, I will be forewarned. -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
