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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> wrote:
> And if I think of PHP's latest fiasco that happened with unicode
> characters, it makes me shudder to think you'd want that stuff in
> Python. If I remember correctly, it was the Turkish locale that they
> stuggled with: Turkey apparently does not have a capital "I", so some
> weird PHP magic code broke with the Turkish locale in effect. Having to
> keep crap like that in mind is just plain horrible. I'm very happy with
> the way Python does it.

That said, though, there's good argument in allowing full Unicode in
*identifiers*. If I'm allowed to name something "foo", then a German
should be allowed to name something "fo=F6". And since identifiers are
case sensitive (at least, they are in all good languages...), there
should be no issues with not having particular letters.

ChrisA