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moving to unicode (was re: PEP)

Robin Becker robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Aug 9 11:10:25 EDT 2000 
In article <4jek5.3550$Z2.65461 at nnrp1.uunet.ca>, Warren Postma
<embed at NOSPAM.geocities.com> writes
>
>> Another thing that should be borne in mind is that we'll be moving to
>> unicode so that other operator notations may in fact be more feasible in
>> future eg the symbol character set may have an existence in unicode.
>> That would make the symbology easier, but not how to associate such
>> symbols with python code.
>
>This scares me more than polluting a nice clean language like Python with
>two sets of binary operators.
>
>If someone wants to write their Python code and write their comments and
>string literals in Hebrew, then I can see how handy this would be for them,
>but I wonder how much complexity it's going to throw on the backs of the
>other 90% of the world's developers who are already used to writing and
>reading ASCII files exclusively.
>
>Warren Postma
>
>
We're the ones complaining about the lack of operator symbols. Unicode
will happen whether we like it or not; whether we take advantage of it
is up to us.
-mumblingly-ýrs- 
Robin Becker
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