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If you want a separate language type for programmatic identifiers upon which all operations are defined in a culture-independent way, (a) good luck getting people to use it reliably, and (b) good luck with the numerous places where you have to convert back and forth and thus need all the information you're trying to not need.

Your XML files start with `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>`. If they then cannot actually support common UTF-8 sequences such as emoji or CJK characters, then your system is bugged, and you should fix it.



The schema I meant was created in-house. I meant the tags and attribute names (schema) I can control.

Just like the compiler controls what can go in a function name (but not in a string literal or comment).




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