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 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization References: <51p83bF1k9di7U1@mid.individual.net> <51rhs3F1m1jliU1@mid.individual.net> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:44:24 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:L8RrP2NHg5iw/1l7eIOIIDJTdy4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.252.37 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1169930379 88.72.252.37 (27 Jan 2007 21:39:39 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.unit0.net!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8633 Date: 2007-01-27T21:44:24+01:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake writes: > "Randy Brukardt" writes: > >> "Alex R. Mosteo" wrote in message >> news:51rhs3F1m1jliU1@mid.individual.net... >>> Randy Brukardt wrote: >> ... >>> It's difficult not to agree with the compiler example. Compiler errors are >>> certainly bothersome for me in Spanish, but because they're badly >>> translated and they difficult searches in google. An even worse example is >>> Excel, whose formulae are translated in Spanish versions! So you have >>> both "IF(;;)" and "SI(;;)" and so on, and both are accepted by the formula >>> engine. This is just mental. >> >> This gave me a vision of a fully internationalized Ada program written in >> Cyrillic (or Chinese or Thai or ...). Just a mass of funny looking >> characters. Just imagine the portability! > > I must object to the characterization of non-English characters as > "funny". > > To people who grew up with Chinese as their native tongue, this entire > thread is just a stream of "funny characters", and a compiler that > worked with Chinese as nicely as GNAT does with English would be a > very productive tool. Identifiers in Ada are actually Latin-1, arent't they? At least in GNAT writing '�berschuss' instead of 'Ueberschuss' works. And I appreciate that. So, a compiler taking complete unicode source with identifiers in the respective alphabets would be really useful. > > While I believe it is true that English is spoken by more people > than any other language (if we count people for whom English is a > second language), Hm. I'd even be tempted to deny this. > there are still billions of people who do not > speak English. We should not dismiss them so lightly. ACK. Regards -- Markus