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Hi Paul, All I'm saying is that whatever restrictions you make on the "composition of Scheme code" you are also making on the values in the language, since Scheme program text and literals (aka string and symbol values (and some others)) are all the same things. By definition. It's true, you could come up with some language that allowed values representing unicode strings but didn't allow program text in unicode. It just wouldn't be faithful to Scheme. In other words, if the technical problems you suggest make it impossible to achieve this, to me that means we've failed. I have no comment on whether or not everyone should learn English to be able to read Scheme code -- that seems outside the scope of this forum :). Robby