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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,699cc914522aa7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.germany.com!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!nntp.inet.fi!inet.fi!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Persson Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <51p83bF1k9di7U1@mid.individual.net> <51rhs3F1m1jliU1@mid.individual.net> <1170179201.13783.76.camel@localhost> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:27:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.96.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1170534439 83.250.96.174 (Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:27:19 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:27:19 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8899 Date: 2007-02-03T20:27:19+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > The unicode Pi and other Greek characters display properly in the > Emacs binary distribution I'm using. So I might be tempted to use > unicode Greek characters in my Ada source code as variable names. But > someone else, using another editor on another OS, may not be able to > see it. Oh, I misunderstood you. I thought you meant using non-ASCII characters in compiled programs, in the user interface. Oh well, if you want your code to work with Gnat you have to stick to ASCII anyway, at least in libraries. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu