Prepitch: Character integer literals

[jawbroken]

@johnno1962

It’s an artefact of the implementation or should I say it’s all I could get to work. Somebody who actually knows what they are doing might fare better but I don’t think this is a burdensome limitation in practice. In fact, I like the model that these literals are more Int-like than Character-like. There is no escaping the need to have at least some knowledge of UNICODE’s vagaries.

Okay, so it is mostly a limitation of the current implementation? Or something to do with the moving target unicode spec/ICU version/whatever? My main concern is that it won't make any sense from a user's perspective.