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In Python you can use ๐ as a variable name.
Edit: oops, guess I was mistaken, you can use most Unicode but emojis are not valid.
That actually seems even more arbitrary. Like, do they just hate fun?
Just going by the reputation, you probably can do this in JavaScript
you might be thinking of Rust.
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The source character set is implementation defined.