From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package?
Date: 2000/04/09
Date: 2000-04-08T23:56:16+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38EFC787.E03CAB2B@ebox.tninet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bt3l5zfs.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> I think Ada's conservative source character set is due to the fact
> that the full ASCII set is not available in all parts of the world.
> For example, in Germany, a national variant of ISO 646 is still widely
> used[1]. On a ISO 646-DE terminal, "@[]\{}|~" is viewed as
> "��������", for example.
>
> [1] Given its limitations. I hope only very few programmers still
> have to maintain source code in this character set, but it appears
> that some large data processing systems still use it, and a lot of
> embedded systems.
The keyboards usually doesn't provide direct access to {}[] and
so on.
For me it is AltGR-( and so on. Shift-( is probably a little better.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-27 0:00 Why is it Called a Package? Gary Scott
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-30 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Paul Graham
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund [this message]
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Comment from the trenchs Robert Brantley
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Brantley
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Why is it Called a Package? Ken Garlington
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Anders Wirzenius
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
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