> do modern languages support Unicode for things like variable names? They do, but there's not much point in taking advantage of it outside of string literals:

> do modern languages support Unicode for things like variable names? They do, but there's not much point in taking advantage of it outside of string literals: you're risking someone whose environment isn't set up to handle it coming in and getting barfed over for... what marginal benefit, really? I googled "unicode variable names" and got this: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names