On 12/18/2015 4:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 05:51 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
I would be inclined to ASCIIfy the apostrophes, dashes, and the
connection.py space that started this thread. People's names, URLs,
and demonstrative characters I'm more inclined to leave. Agreed?
No.
No in the sense of a blanket rule. But in at least some cases, yes. In
idlelib/README.txt, ' somehow got changed to the a latin-1 encoded
slanted apostrophe (by Notepad++ I think) when I edited the file. Since
IDLE *assumes* that the file is ascii-only and does not specify an
encoding, display failed on Serhiy's non-Windows system. Issue 25905.
I changed it back. Other accidents should be fixed.
Guido also wants syntax chars and identifiers in stdlib code kept to
ascii only for universal readability. Maybe that will change someday.
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