Formal comment #137 (minor) Non-ASCII characters should not be treated all alike Reported by: John Cowan Component: lexicalsyntax Version: 5.92 The lexical syntax should not allow Nd, Mc, or Me characters to be initial in identifiers. Allowing a sequence of Nd characters to be identifiers means that digit-strings in non-ASCII digits are identifiers. I don't insist that all digit-strings be numerals, but they certainly should not be identifiers. Likewise, Unicode semantics attaches a Mc or Me character to its predecessor, which would not be part of the identifier. That's undesirable. RESPONSE: Agreed. The characters of these categories will be moved from to .