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From: "Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows
Date: 14 Sep 2006 22:47:26 -0700
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Jeffrey R. Carter schrieb:

> Martin Krischik wrote:
> >
> > Well, that effectivly means we all need to compile with:
> >
> >          "-gnatiw",                          -- Wide-character codes
> > allowed in identifiers
> >          "-gnatW8",                          -- UTF-8 encoding
> >
> > in order to be fully ASIS compatible. Good to know that both VIM and
> > new GPS 4.0 support Utf-8.
>
> I'm sure no one will agree with me, but I don't see the value of
> allowing characters outside 'a' .. 'z' & 'A' .. 'Z' in Ada identifiers.
> Ada is designed to read like English, so in most cases identifiers
> should be in English.

I worked on several project were identifiers form system requironments
where indeed English but identifiers resutling from business
requironments where German. The  buisiness speaks German and we never
saw a reason to translate them.

> if Something then
>
> makes sense, but
>
> if Kelko_Koza then
>
> doesn't (and it doesn't even use characters not generally found in English).

> Of course, this argues that each language should have its own set of
> reserved words. In many cases that could be achieved by a preliminary
> translation phase that converts the reserved words into Ada's English
> reserved words. For a truly international language, instead of reserved
> words, maybe we should have symbols:

Well, language keywords are a system requironment.

Martin