On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 12:35:27 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
But aren't we arguing about the wrong thing here? D already
accepts non-ASCII identifiers.
Walter was doing that thing that people in the US who only speak
English tend to do: forgetting that other people speak other
languages, and that people who speak English can learn other
languages to work with people who don't speak English. He was
saying it's inevitably a mistake to use non-ASCII characters in
identifiers and that nobody does use them in practice.
Walter talking like that sounds like he'd like to remove support
for non-ASCII identifiers from the language. I've gotten by
without maintaining a set of personal patches on top of DMD so
far, and I'd like it if I didn't have to start.
What languages need an upgrade to unicode symbol names? In
other words, what symbols aren't possible with the current
support?
Chinese and Japanese have gained about eleven thousand symbols
since Unicode 2.
Unicode 2 covers 25 writing systems, while Unicode 11 covers 146.
Just updating to Unicode 3 would give us Cherokee, Ge'ez
(multiple languages), Khmer (Cambodian), Mongolian, Burmese,
Sinhala (Sri Lanka), Thaana (Maldivian), Canadian aboriginal
syllabics, and Yi (Nuosu).
