From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_ADDR_WS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 20 Oct 92 16:08:19 GMT From: pa.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!bonmot!wallace@decwrl.dec.com (Richard Wal lace) Subject: Why no umlauts in Ada comments? Message-ID: <1992Oct20.160819.8943@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> List-Id: 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? : -- : Debora Weber-Wulff dww@inf.fu-berlin.de : Institut fuer Informatik +49 30 89691 124 : Nestorstr. 8-9 (INCLUDE "standard.disclaimer") : D-W-1000 Berlin 31 (PRINTN (WITTY-MESSAGE TODAY)) 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 Richard Wallace Digital Equipment Corporation 301 Rockrimmon Blvd. South CXO2-1/7A Colorado Springs, CO 80919-2398 (719)548-2792 "The opinions expressed are my own, Uncle Ken or Uncle Bob may, or may not, agree with me."