Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

[Erik van Velzen]

On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:56:10 UTC, Neia Neutuladh 
wrote:
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:56:10 UTC, Neia Neutuladh 
wrote:
>
> Walter was doing that thing that people in the US who only 
> speak English tend to do: forgetting that other people speak 
> other languages, and that people who speak English can learn 
> other languages to work with people who don't speak English. He 
> was saying it's inevitably a mistake to use non-ASCII 
> characters in identifiers and that nobody does use them in 
> practice.
>

There's a more charitable view and that's that even furriners 
usually use English identifiers.

Nobody in this thread so far has said they are programming in 
non-ASCII.

If there was a contingent of Japanese or Chinese users doing that 
then surely they would speak up here or in Bugzilla to advocate 
for this feature?