From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: UTF-8 characters in comments of a program Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 12:25:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87bkcsnugm.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20883"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:B91DtERvb+IPZ2gGCqbsf0zwa3g= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 21 16:29:29 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1quCym-0005GX-QX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 16:29:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1quCyA-0007RZ-Q3; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qu9Af-0001bt-Pa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 06:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qu9AZ-0002s9-MA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 06:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qu9AW-0007ar-HK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 12:25:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:28:50 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145342 Archived-At: 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