Syntax: Escape hatch for unicode haters

Hey everyone, we’ve had this rodeo before. Unicode isn’t going anywhere, neither in the world at large nor in Julia nor in any other modern language.

The topic at hand here is if adding an ASCII-equivalent syntax to enter unicode identifiers (as is possible in Javascript) would actually help alleviate any difficulties and if it’d be a good idea.

Let’s not just argue with eachother here for the sake of arguing, please.

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