Comment by ogogmad
7 hours ago
Slightly tangential to your point, but I'm leaning towards programming languages no longer limiting themselves to ASCII. IOW, I'm leaning more towards APL than to J. I'm wondering how much of a blocker it's been to not embrace non-ASCII characters, or italic/bold/underlined formatting.
Problem is, how do you tell that character X is indeed character X and not something that looks like character X?
Further, how far do we take the function names are a language thing? Should an ss be rendered differently in Germany? Is leß() the same as less()?
So yes I don't mind non ASCII characters, I'm not sure this should primarily be about supporting users of foreign languages, rather to increase the number of characters.
Although at this point, I would guess that most programmers have some kind of ASCII compatible keyboard? So what's being gained by having characters that aren't on that keyboard?