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Subject: Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F?
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>:
>
>> Guido also wants syntax chars and identifiers in stdlib code kept to
>> ascii only for universal readability.
>
> Readability, or writability? Most people would have no idea how to
> produce the characters with their keyboards.

Most of the non-ASCII in the CPython source is people's names, which
will simply be copied and pasted from somewhere.

ChrisA