Re: 8-bit parameter names?

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 9,  6:49pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} I don't know what characters you can have in user names, but it's only
} used to test what follows a ~.

Ah, well, that's probably how it got in there, then.  I'm sure there are
usernames with non-ascii characters in non-English-speaking countries.
Unfortunate side-effect that it also affects variable names.

} iword needs redoing completely for Unicode anyway; we need to base it
} on WORDCHARS plus isalnum() or iswalnum

While you're at it, keep in mind that it'd be nice to be able to parse
a dot as a valid parameter name character, but only within ${ } braces.
Ksh namespace syntax and all that.