Westley Martínez <aniko...@gmail.com> writes: > When I read Python code, I only > see text from Latin-1, which is easy to input and every *decent* font > supports it. When I read C code, I only see text from Latin-1. When I > read code from just about everything else that's plain text, I only see > text from Latin-1. Even Latex, which is designed for typesetting > mathematical formulas, only allows ASCII in its input. Languages that > accept non-ASCII input have always been somewhat esoteric.
Maybe we'll see more of them as time goes by. C, Python, and Latex all predate Unicode by a number of years. If Latex were written today it would probably accept Unicode for math symbols, accented and non-Latin characters, etc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
