The importance of Unicode is in letting people write programs in foreign languages. I had a Pascal textbook written in the 80s in which all the variables had Ge

The importance of Unicode is in letting people write programs in foreign languages. I had a Pascal textbook written in the 80s in which all the variables had German names. That's no longer possible today. Shitty variable naming using ASCII, on the other hand, is still possible and is actually quite prevalent.