Re: UTF-8 identifiers [was: Re: Lua t-shirts]

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Jerome Vuarand wrote:
> Being able to use accented letters or even non-roman characters would
> be a useful tool to teach programming to people not speaking english.

...or just contribute to their confusion. You don't probably know how 
many Italians type the wrong accent on the letter 'e' while just 
writing. Many don't even know that there are two different accents.

I found no difficulty in teaching programming to non-english people 
using ASCII... and I suspect the Lua authors didn't either :-)

  Enrico