Its reasonable in the sense that the decision was already made, by history & circumstance, and that it's largely not that problematic and well supported (out of

Its reasonable in the sense that the decision was already made, by history & circumstance, and that it's largely not that problematic and well supported (out of necessity). The only alternatives would be to converge on a lowest common demoninator, and have a likely more inconvenient syntax for all parties, or to diverge into regional-specific dialects, which unicode shows to be.. wide.. and generally make code sharing much harder. This is really more of a "many mostly equivalent solutions, but one needs to be picked" scenario -- and it would be time poorly spent trying to undo the incumbent solution (and will naturally be rendered untenable by endless bike-shedding anyways). The worst of all solutions -- except for all the others