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2025-12-20
[Moved to DR at the May, 2015 meeting.]
The grammar in 5.11 [lex.name] includes the production,
The rule for “other implementation-definedcharacters” is a holdover from before the introduction ofuniversal-character-names, intended to allow the use of non-ASCIInational characters in identifiers. However, since allcharacters outside the basic source character set are nowconceptually mapped to universal-character-names in translationphase 1, there is no longer a need for such a provision and itshould be removed.
Proposed resolution (April, 2015):
Change the grammar in 5.11 [lex.name] as follows: