On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:57:31 -0700 (PDT), Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
>We also know that those environments that do allow the use of Unicode are
>not all compatible. I see two main problems:
>
>1. Should the full Unicode repertoire be allowed, or just a subset?
From the Java docs:
>public static boolean isUnicodeIdentifierStart(char ch)
>
>Determines if the specified character is permissible as the
>first character in a Unicode identifier. A character may start a
>Unicode identifier if and only if it is a letter.
and:
>A character is considered to be a letter if and only if it is
>specified to be a letter by the Unicode 2.0 standard (category "Lu",
>"Ll", "Lt", "Lm", or "Lo" in the Unicode specification data file).
This is far more than one would need for localisation of source code.
A subset would be better.
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