Can NFKC turn valid UAX 31 identifiers into non-identifiers?

[Alastair Houghton via Unicode]

On 6 Jun 2018, at 17:50, Manish Goregaokar <manish at mozilla.com> wrote:
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> I think the recommendation to use ASCII as much as possible is implicit there.

It would be a very good idea to make it explicit. Even for English speakers, there may be a temptation to use characters that are hard to distinguish or hard to type on someone else’s keyboard; some thought needs to be given before choosing non-ASCII identifiers. Sometimes you might even choose to support multiple spellings of an API to avoid any problems. And in other cases it’s a good idea to remember that someone other than you might have to maintain your code in the future; that person might not speak the same language you do or use the same keyboard.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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