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Re: IDL support for international characters (unicode) [message #52760 is a reply to message #52701]

Thu, 01 March 2007 08:08

Mirko
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Registered: April 1999

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On Feb 27, 8:24 am, "Lasse Clausen" <l...@lbnc.de> wrote:
> On 26 Feb, 16:00, Ben Panter <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>> Mirko wrote:
>>> Hello group,
>
>>> I have submitted a feature request to RSI for unicode support. They
>>> already have one request on file. I am hoping that by generating more
>>> noise from us, we can push this request up the priority queue.
>
>>> I would personally like to use Greek and other character sets to code
>>> mathematical formulae.
>
>>> I am guessing that our non-english speaking folks would also
>>> appreciate the convenience of using their native characters.
>>> Although, it may make IDL programs less shareable. I for one will not
>>> be able to review or modify a code written in any of the oriental or
>>> mid-eastern character sets.
>
>>> Mirko
>

This is a follow-up to both Ben's and Lasse's emails.

Having a program with a greek character alpha displayed instead of
five characters is a matter of easthetics and convenience. We have
been programming without greek characters for close to 50 years now.
We can keep doing it that way. But in the past 50 years we have
switched from machine to assembly, to procedural, and now to object
ways of doing programming. This is one example of change of
programming practice.

Some programs are transcriptions of mathematical formulae. It would
be much easier to write them and debug them if the program notation
followed the mathematical notation as close as possible.

And, also imagine doing math using multi-letter names for variables in
the equations. I would not find it very appealing.

Mirko

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		Re: IDL support for international characters (unicode) By: Lasse Clausen on Tue, 27 February 2007 05:28
		Re: IDL support for international characters (unicode) By: Lasse Clausen on Tue, 27 February 2007 05:24
		Re: IDL support for international characters (unicode) By: Ben Panter on Mon, 26 February 2007 08:00
		Re: IDL support for international characters (unicode) By: Mirko on Thu, 01 March 2007 08:08
		Re: IDL support for international characters (unicode) By: George N. White III on Sat, 10 March 2007 08:08
		Re: IDL support for international characters (unicode), GUI with Menu in Different Language By: agarunaf on Wed, 28 February 2007 23:30

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