Re: Modern languages are case sensitive?

[David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:18:10 +0200, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> Of course, this is only the visual presentation. ;-) The actual
> representation uses alternative representations of ASCII characters
> (LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I followed by COMBINING DOT ABOVE) and a
> ZERO WIDTH SPACE.

Then why didn't you type in the actual Unicode? Because it would be very
hard to? Because it wouldn't have fooled anyone?
 
> Clearly, Unicode is not suitable for identifiers.  There are five
> different ways to represent a symbol which looks like a capital H!

And in ASCII there are three symbols that look like a vertical line, and
two that look like a circle, and they're used to confuse things all the
time. If you speak Russian or Hebrew or Japanese natively and English
poorly or not at all, Unicode identifiers are much clearer. (Having
tried to debug code with Polish identifers, I know that it's not easy to
deal with identifiers in a language you're not familiar with; I also
know that ASCII won't stop someone from writing indentifiers in thier
native language.)

I've just added to the list of things to add to GNAT in my Copious Free
Time the option to restrict Unicode identifiers to the Latin script, as
that would solve most of your problems.

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