I want to be able to collaborate with Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Russian, Arabian, Malay programmers. Even if we somehow live in a dystopia where all the engli

I want to be able to collaborate with Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Russian, Arabian, Malay programmers. Even if we somehow live in a dystopia where all the english-speaking world disappears in a magic puff, I think I will continue to shut down my native french and communicate with other fellow programmers in English ASCII. I wish more programmers understood the value of having a lingua franca is. UTF-8 should be used everywhere on the user-facing side, but under the hoods, you want unambiguous representation of strings and code. It is easy to avoid homograph attacks if you do have a non-unicode representation available to you.