On Jan 12, 2012 9:18 PM, "Morten Brodersen" <Morten.Brodersen@constrainttec.com> wrote:
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> Unfortunately most unix/windows/tools/source
> controls/editors out there are Ascii only.

This is probably not true.  I'm among the most annoyed people at this Unicode trend... but the problem is in text entry methods, and occasionally display and fonts if you go completely insane.  Any text processing tool that has trouble with utf8 these days is broken, plain and simple.

Sadly, convenient and general Unicode input is probably not a solvable problem... and the human mental acumen to remember so many symbols and their names or pronunciations will certainly remain unsolved for the foreseeable future.  Anyone want to hazard a guess what percentage of Haskell programmers can even name every letter of the Greek alphabet?  I'm betting less than 10%.