Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Holsti Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Decimal Point vs. Decimal Comma Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 21:05:05 +0300 Organization: Tidorum Ltd Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <8pj2gb9cabvk1s1ch647c2n30210d9geuf@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net VCRdbUwEm34oFT+Z7UNLBQnKzMbzhBBlNxDkHQZSjBckWJDD2M Cancel-Lock: sha1:bfCWzYWjr3tKCeQzneMlNvaL1s0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 In-Reply-To: <8pj2gb9cabvk1s1ch647c2n30210d9geuf@4ax.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.embedded:23460 comp.lang.forth:46447 On 16-04-03 20:24 , upsidedown@downunder.com wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 14:18:56 +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker > wrote: > > What is the problem of using Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) in a programming > language ? Allowed in Ada. > In fact it would be a great thing, if you could use UTF-8 in > programming, e.g. Greek letters Alfa and Beta as program variables ? > No need to do any translitteration from any textbok variables. You can do that in Ada. Whether it makes sense is another question. I usually keep to alphanumerics, but sometimes I use accented letters when I write Ada in a Finnish context, with Finnish names for variables. -- Niklas Holsti Tidorum Ltd niklas holsti tidorum fi . @ .