Re: bash variable names do not comply w/POSIX character set rules

[Eduardo A . Bustamante López]

This definition (
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_230
) states:

  3.230 Name

  In the shell command language, a word consisting solely of underscores,
  digits, and alphabetics from the portable character set. The first character
  of a name is not a digit.

This document has a table of the characters included in the portable character
set:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap06.html#tag_06_01

Which is a subset of the unicode alphanumerics.

So no, it does not mandate arbitrary unicode alphabetics. Only the ones listed
there.