Re: UTF-8 characters in comments of a program

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

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On Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 at 1:49 AM, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:


> Jonathon McKitrick via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> 
> > > If you want to know whether language compilers and
> > > interpreters accept UTF-8 encoded characters, then you will
> > > need to consult the documentation of the relevant compiler.
> > > AFAIK, C/C++ compilers support this only in recent
> > > versions. For Emacs Lisp, the answer is YES, as the default
> > > encoding of ELisp files is UTF-8.
> > 
> > A few years ago I found a bug in an input form of our web
> > app, and I thoroughly enjoyed writing unit tests to verify
> > the fix, including the 'poo' emoji. This was in Scala, BTW.
> 
> 
> In certain applications, notably those who deal with
> communication between people, those chars sure has their
> place, just like support for different human languages, not
> just English, obviously should be supported.
> 
> For example when I talk about countries in my smartphone
> Signal app, I like to add their flags after the country names.
> It spices things up and look nice and besides everyone loves
> flags, right?
> 
> But in computer-computer technology and programming not so
> much so IMO. I'm sure modern programming languages that are
> designed and implemented today can support them, but what is
> the gain, really? Maybe I'm just old-school.

It is not old-school.  It is western-school, because some writing systems
it is customary to introduce ideograms representing concepts or ideas 
rather than a specific word in a language.  Examples include Cuneiform,
Egyptian and Anatolian Hieroglyphs, Mayan, Chinese Scripts, Japanese, the
list is not short.
 
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