Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/27/2013 3:18 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Well, D *does* support non-English identifiers, y'know... for example:
>
> 	void main(string[] args) {
> 		int число = 1;
> 		foreach (и; 0..100)
> 			число += и;
> 		writeln(число);
> 	}
>
> Of course, whether that's a good practice is a different story. :)

I've recently come to the opinion that that's a bad idea, and D should not 
support it.