Re: Unicode in source code. WHY?

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Wed Jul 21 1999 - 10:23:54 EDT

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Torsten Mohrin wrote:

> Of course, I do *not* want to restrict the whole world to use only
> "ASCII based" identifiers. But, I still doubt that using Unicode in
> identifiers would improve software quality. As a consequence
> programming language keywords have to be translated.

I don't believe that anyone proposes *that*; keywords are not
identifiers, and always appear literally.

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