Re: RFE: Please allow unicode ID chars in identifiers

[L A Walsh]

John McKown wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 4:48 PM, L A Walsh <bash@tlinx.org 
> <mailto:bash@tlinx.org>> wrote:
>
>
>         Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
>             Here is a demonstration of the cost of what you are
>             proposing.  In my
>             mail user agent, your variable shows up as L??v.
>
>             Source code with your UTF-8 identifiers would no longer
>             even be READABLE 
>
>
>         What display/OS do you have that you can't run UTF-8 on?
>
>
>        Still curious - - -> me.  :-)
>
>
> ​OK, I did a port of BASH to an IBM "mainframe" system (IBM z) which 
> uses EBCDIC as it's character set, rather than ASCII or UNICODE. 
> Granted, this system is a very minor player to most people. OTOH, most 
> "Fortune 500" companies will have one or more "hidden away" doing some 
> "legacy" work and, now, perhaps even some mobile (smartphone, tablet) 
> back end work. There is another mid-range IBM system which also uses 
> EBCDIC, but I don't know if it has a BASH port or not.​
I know that perl which supports an ebcdic flavored machines, has full
UTF-8 support now -- they were one of the first -- about 10 years ago,
but no one uses ebcdic outside of ibm machines -- and those are not
consumer or home level machines.

I'm surprised you got bash ported to work with that charset though,
and certainly I can't imagine you using an ebcdic machine as a home
machine....are you?