Re: RFE: Please allow unicode ID chars in identifiers

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/4/17 3:45 AM, dualbus wrote:

> I know I said I wasn't going to reply, but this changed my mind :-)
> 
> I hadn't realized that bash already supports Unicode in function names!

When not in Posix mode, bash doesn't really have any restrictions on
characters that can be used in function names.  It's basically the same
namespace as external commands, with a few exceptions (no dollar signs,
no quoted strings, no all-digit names). You can even name a function
`/bin/true' and call it, as long as you quote the slashes.  With so few
restrictions, there's nothing to supporting locale-specific function
names -- they're just a string of bytes.

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