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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:13:42 -0700
From: Stephen Pollei <stephen.pollei@gmail.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts
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On 8/14/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> I know the alternatives are available.  That doesn't make it any less
> idiotic to use non ASCII characters as operators.  I think it's a very
> slippery slope.  We write code in ASCII, dammit.

Yes you and I might write 99.9% of our code in good'ol **American**
Standard Code for Information Interchange -- however not all the world
is USA. For instance notice the http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut/
in "Löwis"... Seems like lots of Europeans might want a bigger
charset, not to mention Asians, Hindus, and whomever else.

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