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| From | James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Unicode in C Sources |
| Date | 2020-02-02 17:07 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <r17h80$ecf$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 2/2/20 3:39 PM, David Brown wrote: > On 02/02/2020 20:46, James Kuyper wrote: >> On 2/2/20 11:09 AM, David Brown wrote: >> ... >>> gcc's support for extended identifiers is, let us say, "interesting". >>> It supports them, but not in a way that any sane person would want to use. >> >> Well, that description got me interested. Would you care to expand on >> that comment? >> > > Basically, you had to use \u1234 or \U12345678 syntax for your Unicode > letters in identifiers. So if you wanted "const double π = 3.14;", > you'd have to write "const double \u03C0 = 3.14;". That is with the > "-fextended-identifiers" on to enable the feature. That's not an example of "support for extended identifiers" - it doesn't involve the use of a single extended character. That's simply of meeting the standard's requirements for the handling of UCN's, while failing to support extended characters in identifiers. I was expecting, from your comment, something much more bizarre than that. > I am still sceptical about how useful they would be, but I am sure many > non-English speakers will want to use their local alphabets to some > extent. (Here in Norway, people generally program in English - the lack > of åøæ in identifiers is not usually a big issue.) If support were guaranteed, rather than implementation-defined, there's a fair number of cases where I'd be inclined to take advantage of that feature. As a native English speaker, whose employers and clients have always been native English speakers, I have little or no use of extended characters for that purpose. However, since my code often implements mathematical and scientific equations, it would be attractive to use actual Greek letters in identifiers, rather than the English names of those letters.
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Unicode in C Sources F Russell <fr@random.info> - 2020-02-01 17:12 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-01 17:37 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2020-02-01 20:43 +0300
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Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-02 16:58 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources F Russell <fr@random.info> - 2020-02-02 17:05 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-02 19:52 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-02 19:20 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-02-03 12:38 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 09:16 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 15:32 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2020-02-03 09:01 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-02-03 21:15 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources F Russell <fr@random.info> - 2020-02-04 02:06 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources F Russell <fr@random.info> - 2020-02-04 02:19 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-04 02:50 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-04 08:16 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-01 18:10 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-02-01 15:19 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <invalid@add.invalid> - 2020-02-02 00:13 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <invalid@add.invalid> - 2020-02-02 00:46 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-02 00:24 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-02-02 08:14 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-02 17:59 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-02 14:44 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-02 21:49 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-02 16:58 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-03 15:33 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-03 15:38 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 10:25 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-03 19:11 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 15:59 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-04 16:51 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-04 16:05 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-02-19 12:17 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-02 17:09 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-02 14:46 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-02 21:39 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-02 17:07 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 13:12 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-03 16:46 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-03 16:47 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 13:36 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 23:56 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 13:06 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 22:25 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 13:29 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-02-19 12:30 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-19 14:19 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-04-02 07:50 -0700
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-04-02 08:16 -0700
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-03 22:33 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 23:05 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-03 23:10 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-04 18:05 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2020-02-04 09:38 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-04 18:46 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-02-04 16:07 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-02-02 14:54 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2020-02-03 15:10 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-03 07:47 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 14:00 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-03 16:45 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Guillaume <message@bottle.org> - 2020-02-03 17:54 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-03 22:36 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-04 16:33 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-04 16:45 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-02-04 13:02 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-04 23:18 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-05 11:07 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-05 14:49 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-02-16 06:23 -0800
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-05 10:54 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-05 14:51 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-05 14:03 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-05 16:31 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-05 15:59 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-02-05 16:02 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-05 16:59 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2020-02-05 18:02 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-05 19:37 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-05 19:37 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2020-02-05 21:02 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2020-02-06 10:34 +1300
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-05 23:10 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2020-02-06 13:53 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-06 13:26 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-02-06 07:27 -0500
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-05 23:03 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Mikko Rauhala <mjr@iki.fi> - 2020-02-06 10:46 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-05 21:47 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-05 22:50 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-02-07 00:25 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-02-07 02:07 +0000
Re: Unicode in C Sources David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-02-05 16:26 +0100
Re: Unicode in C Sources antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-04-18 03:58 +0000
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