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by Certhas 299 days ago
So source code needs to be UTF8 because it contains comments and string literals. And filenames need to be bytes. It seems that both of these are orthogonal to the question of whether non-ASCII code is desirable...

Restricting the program part to ASCII is fine for me, but as a fellow German it's also important to recognize that we don't loose much by not having ä cömplete sät of letters. Everyone can write comprehensible German using ASCII characters only. So I would listen to what people from languages that really don't fit into ASCII have to say.