Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[monarch_dodra]

On Tuesday, 28 May 2013 at 00:11:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Every time I've been to a programming shop in a foreign 
> country, the developers speak english at work and code in 
> english. Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone does, but 
> as far as I can tell the overwhelming bulk is done in english.

That's because you have an academic view of code, and a library 
approach to development.

When you are a private company selling closed source code, I 
really don't see why you'd code in English.

IMO, whether it is a bad idea is not for us to judge (and less so 
to stop), but for each company/organization to choose their own 
coding standard.