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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:10:22 -0400
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Henrik Faber <hfaber@invalid.net> wrote:
> If you allow for UTF-8 identifiers you'll have to be horribly careful
> what to include and what to exclude. Is the non-breaking space a valid
> character for a identifier? Technically it's a different character than
> the normal space, so why shouldn't it be? What an awesome idea!
>
> What about =C3=97 vs x? Or =C3=8C vs =C3=8D vs =C3=8E vs =C3=8F vs =C4=A8=
 vs =C4=AA vs =C4=AB vs =C4=AC vs =C4=AD vs =C4=AE vs
> =C4=AF vs I vs =C4=B0? Do you think if you need to maintain such code you=
'll
> immediately know the difference between the 13 (!) different "I"s I just
> happened to pull out randomly you need to chose and how to get it? What
> about =C8=9C vs =C8=9D? Or =C8=A2 vs =C8=A3? Or =C8=B8 vs =C8=B9? Or d vs=
 =D4=80 vs =D4=81 vs =D4=83 vs =D4=82? Or =D6=81 vs g?
> Or =D5=BD vs u?

Yes, as soon as we add unicode to anything everyone will go insane and
write gibberish.

-- Devin