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From Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:10:22 -0400
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> wrote:
> If you allow for UTF-8 identifiers you'll have to be horribly careful
> what to include and what to exclude. Is the non-breaking space a valid
> character for a identifier? Technically it's a different character than
> the normal space, so why shouldn't it be? What an awesome idea!
>
> What about × vs x? Or Ì vs Í vs Î vs Ï vs Ĩ vs Ī vs ī vs Ĭ vs ĭ vs Į vs
> į vs I vs İ? Do you think if you need to maintain such code you'll
> immediately know the difference between the 13 (!) different "I"s I just
> happened to pull out randomly you need to chose and how to get it? What
> about Ȝ vs ȝ? Or Ȣ vs ȣ? Or ȸ vs ȹ? Or d vs Ԁ vs ԁ vs ԃ vs Ԃ? Or ց vs g?
> Or ս vs u?

Yes, as soon as we add unicode to anything everyone will go insane and
write gibberish.

-- Devin

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  Re: the meaning of r’.......‘ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 08:07 +0000
    Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-23 08:55 -0400
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              Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 15:59 +0200
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-07-23 16:08 +0200
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-23 15:43 +0100
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                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-07-25 00:35 +1000
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                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-07-25 13:07 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 14:11 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-25 06:07 +0000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-25 07:37 +0100
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-07-25 16:43 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-25 08:13 +0100
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 09:21 -0600
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 10:36 -0600
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 02:42 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-07-24 09:59 -0700
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 10:02 -0400
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 17:10 +0000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 08:08 -0700
              Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Jan Riechers <janpeterr@freenet.de> - 2012-07-23 21:29 +0300
            Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 10:10 -0400
              Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 16:40 +0200
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 00:53 +1000
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 11:02 -0400
              Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 16:54 +0000
            Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 00:19 +1000
              Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 16:42 +0200
                Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-07-23 14:10 -0400
            Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 16:53 +0000
        Re: the meaning of r?.......ï¾ MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-07-23 16:46 +0100
        Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 16:33 +0000
          Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-07-23 14:43 -0400
      Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> - 2012-07-23 15:26 +0200
      Re: the meaning of r.......ïŸ Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-23 15:49 +0000
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      Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......ï¾ Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-07-23 12:19 -0400
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