Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> It is good to _permit_ putting non-ASCII
> characters in strings and comments, as we do; but Lisp code (including
> its normal conventions) shouldn't require use of such characters.

This shouldn't be a problem.  The approach in Emacs master does not require the 
use of non-ASCII characters in source-code docstrings or diagnostics, and 
further changes along these lines should still support ASCII-only strings and 
comments containing quoted symbols that continue to work as before.