On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Henrik Faber <hfa...@invalid.net> wrote: > No, you misunderstood me. I didn't say people are going to write > gibberish. What I'm saying is that as a foreigner (who doesn't know most > of these characters), it can be hard to accurately choose which one is > the correct one. This is especially true if the appropriate keys are not > available on your keyboard. So it makes maintenance of other people's > code much more difficult if they didn't on their own chose to limit > themselves to ASCII.
This sounds like a job for a project's style guide. Have the language support full Unicode (or maybe "everything except whitespace" or whatever), and let each project head stipulate the project's own restrictions. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list