Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/27/2013 6:06 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I don't find this a compelling reason to allow full Unicode on
> identifiers, though. For one thing, somebody maintaining your code may
> not know how to type said identifier correctly. It can be very
> frustrating to have to keep copy-n-pasting identifiers just because they
> contain foreign letters you can't type. Not to mention sheer
> unreadability if the inventor's name is in Chinese, so the algorithm
> name is also in Chinese, and the person maintaining the code can't read
> Chinese. This will kill D code maintainability.

+1