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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:02:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: unicode as valid naming symbols
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On 2014-03-31 11:40, Ian Kelly wrote:
> There is nothing useful
> you can do with a name that is the U+1F4A9 character that you can't
> do just as easily with alphanumeric identifiers like pile_of_poo (or
> =D0=BA=D1=83=D1=87=D0=B0_=D1=84=D0=B5=D0=BA=D0=B0=D0=BB=D0=B8=D0=B9 if on=
e prefers; that's auto-translated, so don't blame
> me if it's a poor translation).  The kinds of symbols that we're
> talking about here aren't part of any writing systems, and so to
> incorporate them in *names* as if they were is an abuse of Unicode.

It does get more complex though, when you could have things like

 =E9=BB=84=E9=87=91=E5=B1=8E =3D "\U0001f4a9"

Like you, I don't expect to ever encounter something like this in the
wild, but they are indeed symbols used in a writing system. :-)

-tkc