I totally agree. I'm glad to see that the W3C world still has this view of things. That is to say standardize and above all internationalize! That said, a language is cultural, it influences the meaning of ideas, it even influences the way of thinking. Some languages ​​have nuances that others don't... I am translating this text and I am probably in the field in many respects and yet I read daily in English and try to avoid expressions, allusions and all that related to my culture... Unlike metric versus English systems, apostrophes and quotation marks, daylight saving time, etc. which could be normalized (with a lot of effort). I once wrote a post about the prestigious French Academy that used three different types of apostrophes in the same web page! These French language specialists even used English quotation marks!! The road will be long. But that's still a lot of standards that it would be much easier to standardize on a global scale with a little courage and initiative than the language of a programming language! What I mean is that before arriving at this utopia, there is a world to change! Starting with internationalization. We will have to really assimilate Unicode instead of simply patching programs with lookup tables. One finds everywhere, particularly in the English-speaking world, applications, server components, etc., which do not yet support UNICODE out of sheer ignorance, but above all because of the cultural fact that Unicode takes 2 times (.. .4 times and more) more memory than the good old Windows character set! And yet Unicode is a standard that has existed for decades (1991)! Even a web page, we still find a bunch of HTML entities instead of a well encoded UTF-8 page, still not pure misunderstanding of the encoding. And what about programming! Programming with regular expressions, encryption, there are still several programming tools completely incompatible with UTF-8, etc. And what about the Big and Little Endian Byte Order!! While waiting for a true dialogue, just to think about it, this kind of treatment and exceptions will undeniably increase the workload of the compilers and the energy expenditure. Finally, making a 180 degree turn of the world of programming languages ​​is a desert crossing, a wishful thinking and a probably impossible undertaking in my opinion. Besides, the sympathetic "Semantic Web" is an expression that does not hold water 😉 That said, please give the Nobel Prize to Sir Tim; -)