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Re: Display types?



Ron Rivest wrote:
>     (1) [Display types] allow the use of names over a non-Latin alphabet
> My personal opinion is that (1) makes them worth the extra trouble...

Can we drop display types and declare that the name is UTF8?  That gets us
both an international alphabet and a simple syntax.

For those unfamiliar with UTF8, I recommend the paper by Rob Pike and Ken
Thompson as a readable introduction:
    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/doc/utf.html

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