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From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 characters in comments of a program
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:04:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <IaEOw2FIPJGbrUvHsbmWIBdjKuVNA2yP0vw4uPPz6FfLpNQNrJs9W2PRxLX7ZQhRLaZ0JDwIP6dLsgiVNHPFOnyZoynwSV-hdu6wSefUx20=@protonmail.com> (raw)
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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.
 
> --
> underground experts united
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal



  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-22 11:04 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 [this message]
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

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