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steveklabniklast Tuesday at 5:54 PM1 replyview on HN

C does allow for limited unicode in identifiers, though you need to use the \u prefix and write the code out. Compilers like clang let it work like C++ and follow TR31, though this is nonstandard.


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account42last Wednesday at 8:14 AM

Yes, these are the relatively recent additions being discussed here. C and C++ managed just fine for ages without them before the committees decided that scoring brownie points with performative changes was more important than security and readability of source files.