Re: RFE: Please allow unicode ID chars in identifiers

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 09:20:45AM +0700, Peter & Kelly Passchier wrote:
> On 04/06/2560 04:48, L A Walsh 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?
> 
> So it's his mail client: reading unicode source in their old mail client
> is going to be problematic for some people...

imadev:~$ uname -a
HP-UX imadev B.10.20 A 9000/785 2008897791 two-user license

imadev:~$ ls -lt /usr/bin | tail -1
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin        bin          12288 May 30  1996 from

It's the system on which I run my email MUA (mutt) and my IRC client.
It's also the NIS slave server for this floor (subnet).  It's also
where I put the squid proxy that all the Debian systems use for
apt-get.

Up until a few months ago, when our legacy Perforce server died, it
was also where I did all the development for an in-house Tcl (mostly)
application.  Having absolutely no intention of attempting to replace
Perforce with another Perforce, I simply took the existing checkout
(Perforce calls it a "client") that I already had, copied it over to
the Debian half of my dual-boot Debian/Windows system, and made a git
repository out of it.  (Compiling git for HP-UX 10.20 did not sound like
a fun thing to do, with all that https and stuff that it seems to want.)

This is the pace at which changes happen out here in the real world.