Is it a good idea to use unicode symbols as Java identifiers?

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Published on 2010-05-08T11:01:41Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 11:08 UTC
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I have a snippet of code that looks like this:

double ?t = lastPollTime - pollTime;
double a = 1 - Math.exp(-?t / t);
average += a * (x - average);

Just how bad an idea is it to use unicode characters in Java identifiers? Or is this perfectly acceptable?

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