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

Fri Dec 18 16:56:05 EST 2015

On 12/18/2015 4:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 2015年12月18日 05:51 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> I would be inclined to ASCIIfy the apostrophes, dashes, and the
>> connection.py space that started this thread. People's names, URLs,
>> and demonstrative characters I'm more inclined to leave. Agreed?
>> No.

No in the sense of a blanket rule. But in at least some cases, yes. In 
idlelib/README.txt, ' somehow got changed to the a latin-1 encoded 
slanted apostrophe (by Notepad++ I think) when I edited the file. Since 
IDLE *assumes* that the file is ascii-only and does not specify an 
encoding, display failed on Serhiy's non-Windows system. Issue 25905. 
I changed it back. Other accidents should be fixed.
Guido also wants syntax chars and identifiers in stdlib code kept to 
ascii only for universal readability. Maybe that will change someday.
-- 
Terry Jan Reedy