https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14658
Issue ID: 14658 Summary: Allow half-width katakana in identifiers Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: DMD Assignee: nob...@puremagic.com Reporter: naptimeentertainm...@gmail.com Most Japanese is allowed in D source code, but half-width katakana is not supported (U+FF61..U+FF9F, inclusive). Half-width katakana was designed for programming use (dating back to when text-mode terminals required all characters to have the same width, and a half-width version of Japanese katakana was created to match the Latin characters used in ASCII). I'm not sure why it did not make the table in Annex D of the C99 standard (I just checked -- it is not listed there), but I think half-width katakana is an important set of characters to support in D since it allows for compact (space-saving) identifiers in Japanese. I understand that compatibility with C is important, but it is my understanding of the C99 standard that "universal character names for identifiers" are not necessarily encoded in plain Unicode anyway -- from footnote 60 of the standard (ISO/IEC 9899:TC2 WG14/N1124 ยง6.4.2.1-3, page 51): "On systems in which linkers cannot accept extended characters, an encoding of the universal character name may be used in forming valid external identifiers." Please add the following character range to the character ranges supported by D for use in identifiers: U+FF61 to U+FF9F := half-width katakana // (Also: Does "P5" mean the lowest priority or the highest priority?) --