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Posted by Chung Leong on 07/27/06 16:06
Adam Harvey wrote:
> How do you propose to deal with different alphabets and languages? It's
> not uncommon for programming languages to allow variable names to be in
> something other than US-ASCII -- indeed, this code (if saved as UTF-8, at
> least; I can't vouch for other encodings) works in PHP, since it allows
> variable names to include high-bit characters:
The answer is: that's not a can of worms you want to open. If you say
that it's desirable to support some non-Latin scripts, then you're
commiting yourselves to supporting all non-Latin scripts. Suddenly you
have to consider things like directionality: How does language behave
when the code is written in Arabic? Something like
";5 =+ nulaam<-aklit$"? Before you know it you'll have programmers
declaring jihads in newsgroups over vowel marks.
Talib: I've studied the Quran for 30 years. Vowels should be marked
like in the Holy Book!
Jarir: Shut up you fundamentalist troll!
Talib: Infidel!
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