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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 characters in comments of a program
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 12:25:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkcsnugm.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ywc0Jk9Q83U1Q27DouURFR-Vx9ZV7Hxc82ytJarprIGDxdhx-2UxR08m4gNlPfMDqrteF30qoLyBCHNk0zFklR28jZy4cBzix8G_1E-iuVE=@protonmail.com

Heime wrote:

> Is it allowed to have UTF-8 characters in comments of
> a program (elisp, fortran, C, C++, latex) ?

It is sometimes allowed depending on what tools are involved
in the build process. But it is safer to stick with ASCII
which is always sufficient, especially for your examples,
which are all either old or very old by now.

Lisp    1958 List Processor/Processing. USA
Fortran 1957 Formula Translation. IBM, John Backus
C       1972 Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs
C++     1983 "C with classes", Bjarne Stroustrup
LaTeX   1984 typesetting for PDF. Leslie Lamport, SRI, California
Elisp   1985 Emacs Lisp

https://dataswamp.org/~incal/sth/scripts/hist
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/COMP-HIST

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal




      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-21 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-20 22:53 UTF-8 characters in comments of a program Heime
2023-10-21  7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 10:48   ` Heime
2023-10-21 11:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 11:36       ` Heime
2023-10-21 11:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-21 11:51           ` Heime
2023-10-23 15:39             ` Leo Butler
2023-10-21 15:54       ` Basile Starynkevitch
2023-10-21 13:19   ` Jonathon McKitrick via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-10-21 13:49     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-22 11:04       ` Heime
2023-10-22 11:30         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-22 13:44       ` Eric S Fraga
2023-10-23  5:51         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-21 10:25 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]

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