Scott David Daniels wrote:
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Because the coding is only supported in string literals.
But I'm not sure exactly why.
The why is the same as why we write in English on this newsgroup.
Not because English is better, but because that leaves a single
language for everyone to use to communicate in.
Fair enough. Though people can communicate in other languages
if they want, or have specific newsgroups for other languages.
If you allow
non-ASCII characters in symbol names, your source code will be
unviewable (and uneditable) for people with ASCII-only terminals,
never mind how comprehensible it might otherwise be.
So how does one edit non ascii string literals at the moment?
It is a
least-common-denominator argument, not a "this is better"
argument.
If one edited the whole file in the specified coding
then one wouldn't have to switch editing modes when
editing strings which is a real pain.
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