Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 12:58 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote:
> My main point was that utf-8 for identifiers, operators, and string
> constants are becoming more prevalent, so BOM support for scripts
> sounds like a Good Idea™ .
> 

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.

Lee

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