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Sure, but this was in the 1990s, when "internationalization" was The Next Big Thing. At the time, the Java team really didn't have any way of knowing for sure
by teraflop 8y ago
Sure, but this was in the 1990s, when "internationalization" was The Next Big Thing.
At the time, the Java team really didn't have any way of knowing for sure whether or not non-ASCII source code would catch on, because most existing languages didn't support it.