From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM
	autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,699cc914522aa7c4
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:26:06 +0100
Message-ID: <52bcnfF1nkbucU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <eog0g5$2bn$1@cernne03.cern.ch> <ud55drgzz.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
 <eolaen$b4h$1@cernne03.cern.ch> <ur6trwdov.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
 <eoqhhm$fjp$1@cernne03.cern.ch> <uac0dyap7.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
 <ep203u$o6s$1@cernne03.cern.ch> <u3b62dqj5.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
 <bsmdndeExq8UPivYnZ2dnUVZ_riknZ2d@megapath.net>
 <51p83bF1k9di7U1@mid.individual.net>
 <a-mdnf5LdafVVCrYnZ2dnUVZ_v6tnZ2d@megapath.net>
 <51rhs3F1m1jliU1@mid.individual.net>
 <HvWdndC6dOHouiTYnZ2dnUVZ_segnZ2d@megapath.net>
 <u3b5wo0g3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <mdac04fbdj.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de>
 <lRRuh.30512$E02.12503@newsb.telia.net>
 <RHSuh.30519$E02.12463@newsb.telia.net>
 <r07iv7gort.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de>
 <Wprvh.30642$E02.12527@newsb.telia.net>
 <o8ejpdu046.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1170179201.13783.76.camel@localhost>
 <iu3b5spapy.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit
X-Trace: individual.net S2trHKxFMheSElSq7gE68QeJVwXZPcIQnJmI6v69rf1MfFPhs=
User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8768
Date: 2007-01-31T12:26:06+01:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Markus E Leypold wrote:

> 
> Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
> 
>> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:03 +0100, Markus E Leypold wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, 'PI' as greek letter in programs might be nice. But is h-bar
>>> (Plack constant) somewhere in Unicode? :-)
>>
>> Sure,
>> U+210F PLANCK CONSTANT OVER TWO PI
>> or '?'
> 
> So that's the same as PI (a small box). I know you can define some
> physical constants as 1 by using the right units, but I'd never have
> expected that you could define h-bar as PI ...
> 
> (no, no, I'm joking. But impressing that unicode even has
> h-bar. Probably they also have everyone of the more "funny" operators
> of theoretical physics too. Of course that does not help in writing
> better physics programs, since some of the stuff need special parsing
> too).

Isn't supposed unicode to have /everything/? Well, or almost. I think they
rejected to include Klingon.

Here, I found it:

http://unicode.org/alloc/rejected.html

Actually it's even a fun read:

http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1643/n1643.htm