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

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Jerome Vuarand wrote:
> Italian and portuguese use alphabets based on the latin one, as do
> most european languages, and most of these alphabets letters have a
> very similar cousin in ASCII. But think about Russian, Chinese or
> Japanese people. While most can use a roman alphabet, many (especially
> the young) may be more comfortable with their local characters.

True. On the other hand, this would make cross-border communication 
harder and so increase programming culture fragmentation (no, I don't 
claim to have a solution).

  Enrico