Why no umlauts in Ada comments?

[pa.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!bonmot!wallace@decwrl.dec.com (Richard Wal]

weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) writes:
: 
: Just because the DoD financed the language shouldn't mean that you have
: to use English in your comments! Is this an oversight - typical for
: anglo-american centric designers - or is there a real reason?
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While I don't speak or read German worth a darn, I'm all for this in
Ada 9x!  The extenstions to the character set should be done.  How
about ISO Latin-1 for the character set?  I'm sure that Tucker and the
rest of the Ada 9x crew have talked about this issue (a wrong
assumption?).

Aloha,
	Richard

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