On 8/14/05, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know the alternatives are available. That doesn't make it any less > idiotic to use non ASCII characters as operators. I think it's a very > slippery slope. We write code in ASCII, dammit.
Yes you and I might write 99.9% of our code in good'ol **American** Standard Code for Information Interchange -- however not all the world is USA. For instance notice the http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut/ in "Löwis"... Seems like lots of Europeans might want a bigger charset, not to mention Asians, Hindus, and whomever else. -- http://dmoz.org/profiles/pollei.html http://sourceforge.net/users/stephen_pollei/ http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=2455954990164098214 http://stephen_pollei.home.comcast.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
