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Re:Fun with Unicode in Swift by squaresmile on Saturday December 15, 2018 @10:38AM (#18688721)
I think it would be great if people don't have to learn English to program. There are tons of people out there using computers, programming with very very poor English knowledge. Besides technical implementation issues, I see no reason to oppose allowing them to name things in a language they are more familiar with.

Of course you can keep using ASCII strings for your program but they should be able to name things however they like too.

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Re:Fun with Unicode in Swift by adwn on Saturday December 15, 2018 @10:45AM (#18688762)
> I think it would be great if people don't have to learn English to program.

But that's the point – you'll still need to learn just as much English when you have Unicode identifiers as when you only have ASCII identifiers.

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