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.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email protected]
Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau,
Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
-- Coleridge / Politzer
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