Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Manu]

On 28 May 2013 09:05, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Why? You said previously that you'd love to support extended operators ;)
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