Re: Unicode in source code. WHY?

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Jul 20 1999 - 16:01:18 EDT

Sandra O'donnell USG wrote:

> Portability may be an important attribute
> for one company, in which case it may restrict itself to ASCII.
> Portability may not be important at all to another, so it may choose
> Unicode. And so on, down the list of pros/cons.

Just so. Wherefore language *standards*, which are international
in scope, should not restrict identifier characters to those of
a certain language only. 

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	John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan	cowan@ccil.org
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Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
			-- Coleridge / Politzer

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