OpenEuphoria

Re: Accented characters in identifiers

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Apr 07, 2007
• 687 views

Pete Lomax wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>>   When someone creates identifiers that contain special characters of
>>   her/his language, it is likely that other people somewhwre else in
>>   the world will have problems to read that code.
> However if they write code in ascii-7 but comments in Japanese...

Then I can still read the code.

>>   The Euphoria community is small enough
>I strongly disagree, we should rise to the (formidable) challenge of a wider
> and multi-lingual community. If I cannot read some future code written in,
> say,
> Urdu, that may well be annoying[1], but I cannot believe there is or ever will
> be any benefit to us deciding now that such should never exist.

The benefit is in considerably reducing the chance that someone will
encounter such an annoying situation.

Regards,
   Juergen