Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Monday 24 December 2012 10:23:00 Sven Barth wrote:

>> As I already wrote there are currently no plans to change that FPC supports
>> only ASCII identifiers.
> 
> I don't think we can trust on that. I hoped that FPC will not use cpstrnew 
> too. So if somebody implements non ASCII identifiers because he needs a 
> second source Delphi compiler it will be merged because the addition does not 
> break existing code. I assume utf-8 identifiers would not be very difficult 
> to do in compiler.

But what will the rule be as to whether something's a valid identifier? 
Will it have to start with something known to be a letter, or something 
not known to be a digit or reserved character?

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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