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Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F?

From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F?
Date 2015-12-19 10:58 +1100
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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

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Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-18 17:51 +1100
  Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-18 20:49 +1100
    Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-12-18 07:55 -0800
    Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-18 16:56 -0500
      Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-12-19 00:16 +0200
        Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-19 10:58 +1100
      Re: Should stdlib files contain 'narrow non breaking space' U+202F? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-12-19 00:52 -0800

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