Don Syme

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I have no idea how to type any of this stuff on a keyboard in standard editors (say VSCode to start). If there are simple standard input methods that don't...

Here's an example of subscript-letter-o in an F# identifier: https://sharplab.io/#v2:EYLgtghglgdgNAGxAMwM5wC4iguATEAagB8B7ABwFMYACAZQE9UNKwBYAKAUoxoFEaAXhoBGAAyduvABJCaAVglceNAFqAkgjkCA9DWmcgA=

> I think it's reasonable to consider specific characters that are highly beneficial for readability rather than whole character categories. In fact this idea is discussed in Unicode Standard Annex...

@vzarytovskii I get the need, though I think all those issues apply for F# 1.0 onwards, and C# 1.0 too - all the unicode characters available via this huge set...

> Yeah, I'm just curious of the level of support for other tooling, mostly because github client on my phone and tablet render it as just squares :) Might be...

Nice catch. There's code to catch this sort of thing an it catches a lot of cases but it's surprisingly hard to get right!

I do agree that being explicit should be ok in these cases. So I consider this a bug

@T-Gro @vzarytovskii If you get a chance could you assess and merge if you see fit? thanks

A more orthogonal (and simpler to imlement) variation is that what follows `exception` is a standard exception pattern, e.g. ```fsharp let printer i = match l.[i] with | n ->...