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Hi Bjoern,


> Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
>> There are even those, like me, that believe that the language of
>> identifiers and comments should be simple English anyway, to
>> maximize reusability.

Bjoern <p2@blinker.net> writes:
> True, I wasn't even thinking about that, but what about
>
> System.out.println("some non-ASCII text here");

For my own code I want a universal version of the text in the code
(that will just be in English) so that I have a fallback in case of
problems, and than I have localized versions of it in ResourceBundles
or whatever my framework uses for internationalization / localization.

Instead of having to get the encodings right for all my code, just the
ResourceBundle files need to be in UTF-16 or UTF-8 or whatever works
best.


so long, benny