On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:18:55AM +0000, José Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 22 November 2006 3:22 pm, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > Now that'd be fine. I have no problems with a GUIName, although > > using unicode for everything is simpler. Well, if we ever get an unicode- > > capable gettext that is. :-/ > > The right analogy is to think about the style name as the variable name, > used by lyx. > > There are lots of languages that support unicode, but very few which accept > unicode in variables. One example that I remember is R (the free > implementation of S). > > > Ascii is very limiting for languages using more letters - try rewriting > > the existing .layouts without the letter "e" to get a feel of what I mean. > > I am sensible to that argument, after all I use accents everyday. :-)
I can live without them pretty well, even though somebody decided to call me Andr\'e{} P\"o{}nitz (not to mention having lived in a street called K\"a{}rrnerwegsiedlung in a village called R\"o{}dlitz for most part of my "stationary" life) Andre' [The problem is that nowadays it is sometimes more diffucult to enter a single quote than a proper umlaut in some web forms...]