# Pitch: Unicode Equivalence for Swift Source

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-unicode-equivalence-for-swift-source/21576>\
**Category:** Pitches\
**Tags:** compiler, unicode\
**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-unicode-equivalence-for-swift-source/21576 "2019-03-13T21:17:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 22

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![John\_McCall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/john_mccall/32/1351_2.png) [@John\_McCall](https://forums.swift.org/u/John_McCall)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-unicode-equivalence-for-swift-source/21576/22 "2019-03-21T20:58:02Z")

</div>

With the proviso that we'd want to be able to run an implementation through as much compatibility testing as we could, yes, consensus on the Core Team was that this would just be a bug-fix.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-unicode-equivalence-for-swift-source/21576)._