OpenEuphoria

Re: Accented characters in identifiers

• Posted by Larry Miller <larrymiller at sas?tel.ne?> May 27, 2008
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I would have to agree with Jeremy and Ken in their posts. CChris had suggested
that accented characters be permitted in identifiers. While this might be
appealing to some, it may cause more trouble than it is worth.

The trouble with code pages is that they are all different in how they interpret
characters 128-255. Most of the Latin based code pages are close but the same can
not be said of others, such as those for Cyrillic, Greek, etc. If a program used
a character in this range it may display differently on a system with a different
code page. Depending on the font and code page used they may not even be
readable. I am sure the developers already know this but others may not.

These problems could be minimized (but not eliminated) if Euphoria were to use
some form of unicode, such as UTF8. Bu I don't think that the developers wish to
travel that road.

I think it best that identifiers be restricted to characters common to all code
pages - ASCII. This may annoy some who's native language is not english but I
think they will understand.

Larry Miller