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Sure, because you have a julia plugin. Not every casual user trying out the language will bother, or want to bother installing someone else's plugin. They'll just hit a function call they need to make with a Unicode character, go WTF man, and give up.

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> They'll just hit a function call they need to make with a Unicode character

This is optional, the language adapts to the capability of the user. He can write ∑ or sum for a function, µ or mu for an identifier.

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/functions/

You get people riled up in this thread with your false assumption, next time simply ask questions.

that's for stuff in the stdlib. You can't control library writers, and julia does not force a function identifier that is mapped to unicode to have a "non-unicode equivalent", though, that might be interesting.

If libraries use unicode in their internals, it doesn't affect you or me. And I have yet to see in the wild any examples of unicode identifiers that are required for use. The closest thing i can think of is the composition operator in Base, though it has a somewhat awkward ascii equivalent.

Do you have any example? As far as I know this is strongly discouraged in the community.

I don’t have a Julia plugin. I don’t even understand what you think the problem is.

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