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

[Petite Abeille <petite_abeille@...>]

On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:52 PM, David Given wrote:

> Right now I'm working on site in Korea.
>
> Trust me, forcing identifiers to be ASCII *in no way helps* cross- 
> border communication.

So... how is your Korean coming along?

Ironically, looking at, hmmm, a typical Korean site such as the one  
from the Blue House, every single link seems to be in plain, old US- 
ASCII:

http://www.president.go.kr/kr/index.php

Ditto for the Japanese, e.g. the Imperial Household Agency:

http://sankan.kunaicho.go.jp/

Ditto for the Chinese:

http://www.gov.cn/

Ditto for the Javascript code code associated with the above site:

http://203.192.2.21/webdig.js?z=1

Go figure. Perhaps US-ASCII is the lingua franca of programming.