From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:31:16 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87h9t0a8az.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87sicvwckx.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87wq27yvqg.fsf@debian.uxu> <8d531e99-7260-4263-ac99-09c6871e2708@googlegroups.com> <87vbhq53lf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87a8z23p23.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87lhilx0cf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87twx9360u.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <0d1d19ab-06e9-462d-8867-9a49b1e232d3@googlegroups.com> <87lhil2io1.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87d23w3mzu.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427855431 19454 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2015 02:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 02:30:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 01 04:30:26 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yd8Q6-0002MZ-Um for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yd8Q5-0004u0-Ge for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:30:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tx4zK3KH/WxJI9ay8/iJBcGTZh0= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211190 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103472 Archived-At: Richard Wordingham writes: > One of the issues with using the full set of Unicode > characters is that many are easily misread when > there are no constraints. Many Greek capitals look > just like Roman capitals, and Latin 'o', Greek 'ο' > and Cyrillic 'о' may be indistinguishable. This is > not a good idea for writing code. Good point. In addition, there are many Unicode chars that aren't human language chars but instead are to be used in geometric figures, in math and otherwise scientific/engineering notation, and so on - and those also collide (or almost so) with for example the Latin 'o' and probably other letters as well. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573