UTF-8 Identifiers

[irww]

Describe the feature

fn main() { σκατ := ' doo, be, shoo, bop, ooh, dee, doo, sha-bam ' δυσκατανοήτων := ' difficult to understand ' println(σκατ) println(δυσκατανοήτων) }

Use Case

UTF-8 identifiers are supported in gcc since 10, Pelles C since 11, MSVC with -utf8 flag.

Proposed Solution

Just add water and stir.

Other Information

V doesn't like UTF-8.

E:\t>v run helloUTF-8.v helloUTF-8.v:3:2: error: invalid character σ 1 | fn main() 2 | { 3 | σκατ := ' doo, be, shoo, bop, ooh, dee, doo, sha-bam ' | ^ 4 | δυσκατανοήτων := ' difficult to understand ' 5 | println(σκατ)

Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

Version used

V 0.4.4 790ea2f

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

Windows 11

Note

You can use the 👍 reaction to increase the issue's priority for developers.

Please note that only the 👍 reaction to the issue itself counts as a vote.
Other reactions and those to comments will not be taken into account.

[JalonSolov]

V is opinionated on many things. One of them that identifiers are ASCII. I don't see this changing.

One of the strengths of V is that anyone can look at anyone else's source and figure out what's going on with the code.

If this change was made, everyone would have to run code through a translator to do that.

[irww]

I do not understand how
σκατ := ' skat'
is more difficult to figure out than
skat := 'σκατ'

Being able to use Unicode standard scientific symbols as variable names (identifiers) is more than useful.
α Right ascension
δ Declination
ε Obliquity of the ecliptic
θ Sidereal time
θο Sidereal time at Greenwich
π Parallax
Φ Geographical latitude
Φ' Geocentric latitude
Δ Distance to the Earth, in AU
ΔΤ Difference ET -UT
Δε Nutation in obliquity
Δψ Nutation in longitude
Θ Geocentric longitude of the Sun

[spytheman]

That is not going to happen.