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Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization
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From: Markus E Leypold
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Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@arcor.de> writes:

> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 20:37 +0100, 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 'ℏ'
>
>> (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).
>
> Ada 2007 doesn't add symbols, AFAICS, but you can use symbols and more
> in comments.
> Both characters (Greek Pi) ('π') and (Planck Constant / 2*PI) ('ℏ')
> are letters and can be used as identifiers.
> Some of the symbols of Unicode have an internationally recognized
> meaning, sometimes even a standardized meaning. They can therefore
> add value to specification and review,
>
>   -- In case of too much radiation (☢), start the shutdown procedure
>   -- and press the eject button (⏏)!


Yes, true -- if physicists (and engineers) could agree on the actual
meaning of symbols. Which they can't, so, usually it is safer to use a
clear text term. Especially in the user interface ...

Regards -- Markus