>> >> These are all good things, but if the IDE editor can't handle basic >> >> stuff like international characters it's not very useful. >> > >> > >> > For you. It is useful for most of the English speaking people and >> those >> > are quiet a lot too, although not as much as the whole world >> population. >> > And even though I don't live in a English speaking country, I never >> had >> > problems with it, because all source and comments of my programs are >> > English. Therefore for me it is not a very important issue. It is nice >> > to have for others. >> >> Indeed, if it is so important, somebody would have implemented it >> already :) > > It's a major issue. In here, we're having a serious programmer > shortage. One of the coolest things about Lazarus is that it could > allow us to hire people that comes from a Windows/Delphi background > and integrate them into our Whatever/Linux enviroment. The problem is > that not everyone is capable of writing correct (in terms of grammar > and spelling) english code documentation. > > I have nearly 600k lines of Delphi code that was extensively > documented in Spanish. I don't want to rewrite the whole documentation > just because of a bug!
The cool thing about fpc and lazarus is that you can fix things yourself. Don't forget that we don't get paid and do it all in our spare free time. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
