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John Max Skaller wrote:

>         I think it is. In particular, Ocaml supports 8 bit characters,
> and even allows the high 128 bytes to be used in identifiers
> (to allow French names :-)
>
 
# String.lowercase "SOME CYRILLIC SYMBOLS" ;;
- : string "SOME CYRILLIC SYMBOLS"
#
 
Supporting 8-bits is not enough to handle different languages.
 
Nickolay