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

["Juris Kalnins" <juris@...>]

> * On 2009-10-05 David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote  :
>
> > I'm still pushing for my proposal to allow all characters with codes
> > in the range 128-255 to be considered valid in names.  This would
> > allow identifiers contain UTF-8 sequences.
>
> Interesting idea. What's the catch, if there is one ?

It would also allow UTF-8 whitespace  
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(computer_science)) and Latin-1  
control characters (C1, the 80-9F range) in names.