Non-ASCII in the future in the lexer

[Walter Bright]

On 5/31/2023 1:22 AM, Dom DiSc wrote:
> I'm fully with you, but the problem is not to have any Unicode symbols in the 
> grammar as operators or delimiters or whatever. It's the input method. Most 
> keyboards don't have them on the keys and any other method is awfully slow. Even 
> a well-designed selector table is slow if it is needed often - and most editors 
> are far from providing such.

I use putty a lot to access computers remotely in text mode. With some 
experimentation, some Unicode characters are rendered, but some aren't, like the 
69 quotes. Maybe the programming world isn't quite ready for them yet.