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,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!homer!news.glorb.com!news-spur1.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.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: User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:42:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.96.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1171248151 83.250.96.174 (Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:42:31 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:42:31 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9268 Date: 2007-02-12T02:42:31+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > [I'm trying to use the Ada-France comp.lang.ada scheme, as I'm using a new > Internet provider without a news server (or at least they won't tell me > where one is. So I've missed a couple of days messages, hopefully I'm not > repeating stuff.] Well, apparently the backward references get lost somewhere along the way, making navigation among the threads rather difficult. :-( > Björn Persson writes (mostly responding to me): > >> I thought the discussion point was whether it's OK to occasionally >> include > a >> non-ASCII character in an otherwise English-language Usenet post. > > I hope you're kidding. That side discussion erupted over examples of the > readability of Ada sources. That was the topic briefly before Larry complained about my not sticking to ASCII – in a Usenet post, not in Ada code. Even earlier the topic was internationalization, as the title of each post still suggests. Before that the title was "Structured exception information", and in the direct ancestors of this branch the discussion was about whether there is any need for structured exception information. The topic always changes in a long discussion. And now the discussion has deteriorated into a meta-discussion about what the topic of the discussion was, so I'm stopping here. -- Björn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu