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by Dewie 4421 days ago
I think it's great that efforts like this accentuate how quickly tools degrade when they are fed input that falls outside of the ASCII-range. Efforts to build better, language-agnostic (or not English-specific) tools bubbles up the technology stack to the end users, to whom it's a unreasonable and unrealistic (and to my mind a bad idea) to demand that they should just learn English.

I also think that programmers should be able to have some support for their own languages when it comes to doing programming, but I guess that opinion won't win me any favors here.