From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>
Subject: Re: Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:15:42 GMT
Date: 2006-09-15T23:15:42+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yuGOg.970235$084.576305@attbi_s22> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <I5lOg.16546$E02.6504@newsb.telia.net>
Bj�rn Persson wrote:
>
> That'd impose an English-like grammar on other languages, which would
> often not work at all. There may well be languages where "if" isn't a
> separate word.
That's why I said "In many cases". For other languages, something more
complex would be needed.
>> For a truly international language, instead of reserved words, maybe
>> we should have symbols:
>>
>> ? Kelko_Koza =>
>> ...
>> ?? Koza_2 =>
>> ...
>> ?=>
>> ...
>> ?<;
>
> That's still not international. A Greek question mark looks like a
> semicolon for starters.
'?' has no real meaning is such a language except as the language
defines it. I could have used '@' just as well. All that matters is that
the Greek developer has the character on his keyboard.
> Don't try. That way lies madness.
Much too C-like for me to try.
--
Jeff Carter
"My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of
thought, careening through a cosmic vapor of invention."
Blazing Saddles
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-11 8:24 Avatox 1.0: Trouble with encoding in Windows Manuel Collado
2006-09-11 10:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-11 13:49 ` Avatox 1.1: " Manuel Collado
2006-09-11 16:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-11 17:50 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-12 0:06 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-09-12 8:35 ` Manuel Collado
2006-09-13 0:01 ` Avatox 1.0: " Randy Brukardt
2006-09-13 9:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-13 19:28 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-14 6:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-14 23:09 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-14 22:13 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-16 7:40 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-16 9:43 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-16 9:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-16 11:15 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-17 9:30 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-13 10:32 ` Manuel Collado
2006-09-13 18:28 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-14 8:11 ` Manuel Collado
2006-09-13 23:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-09-13 11:04 ` vgodunko
2006-09-14 8:56 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-14 21:16 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-14 22:55 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-15 23:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-09-16 7:38 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-17 19:41 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-15 5:47 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-15 23:16 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16 7:31 ` Martin Krischik
2006-09-17 19:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-15 9:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-15 23:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16 9:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-16 10:31 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-17 19:57 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-18 0:06 ` Björn Persson
2006-09-18 20:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-16 5:10 ` Simon Wright
2006-09-15 18:11 ` Pascal Obry
2006-09-15 18:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-09-15 22:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-09-16 7:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-09-15 23:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-15 5:34 ` Simon Wright
2006-09-12 9:52 ` Stephen Leake
2006-09-19 1:16 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-09-19 9:20 ` Stephen Leake
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