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Mention Unicode's *ID_Start* and *ID_Continue*
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Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst

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@@ -573,6 +573,9 @@ Note that Python does not necessarily conform to `UAX-31`_.
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A non-normative listing of all valid identifier characters as defined by
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Unicode is available in the `DerivedCoreProperties.txt`_ file in the Unicode
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Character Database.
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The properties *ID_Start* and *ID_Continue* are very similar to Python's
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``id_start`` and ``id_continue`` sets; the properties *XID_Start* and
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*XID_Continue* play similar roles for identifiers before NFKC normalization.
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.. _UAX-31: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/
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.. _PropList.txt: https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/ucd/PropList.txt

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