Issue #19: Unicode for Component Pascal identifiers

Adopt Unicode for Component Pascal identifiers?

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DGDanforth
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Re: Issue #19: Unicode for Component Pascal identifiers

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"The Letter property is not the same as the Alphabetic property!!!! In Unicode 6.0.0, there are 101539 code points with the Alphabetic property but only 100520 with the Letter property, a difference of over a thousand characters. BTW, your 14k answer is off by an order of magnitude. – tchrist Jan 30 '11 at 20:39 "

My assessment of this is "what a mess".
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Re: Issue #19: Unicode for Component Pascal identifiers

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"Oh, what twisty paths we rode when first we practiced to encode."
Burma Shave

(Burma Shave in the 1950s in the USA had a series of widely spaced signs along open highways
that were always fun to read. For example:
Does your husband / Misbehave / Grunt and grumble / Rant and rave / Shoot the brute some / Burma-Shave)
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