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Subject: Fwd: Re: [BUG] Unicode variables can be exported and are exported metafied
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Assuming it's OK to forward this.
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From: "Chet Ramey" <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Date: Dec 18, 2014 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [BUG] Unicode variables can be exported and are exported
metafied
To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: <chet.ramey@case.edu>

On 12/18/14, 2:58 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> Are we sure it's even "legal" to export Unicode variable names?
Internally
> we can kinda ignore POSIX as we choose, but the environment crosses those
> boundaries.

Yes, it is.

"Other characters may be permitted by an implementation; applications
shall tolerate the presence of such names."

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08
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