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Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:08:56 -0500
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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'

That's a "small box" on my display. Apparently I'm missing that font.

Which is a good reason to not use such characters in programs. How
many people would know how to install the right fonts? (hint; not me
:) And how do you figure out what fonts they will need? 

I assume these problems will eventually be solved. But I don't trust
Microsoft to solve them in a nice way ("the program you are trying to
compile requires font foobar. Please deposit $20.00 to download it" :).

With ASCII source, the necessary fonts are sure to be already installed.

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-- Stephe