I wasn't trying to imply that everyone should work in english. For starters, there are many languages besides english that use few or no non-ascii characters. But also, I was just saying that since the language *itself* is in english, how much of a difference does it make to work entirely within the ascii character set? Obviously some (a lot?) but if that were the only use-case for unicode it would be thin indeed.
</diggingTheHoleDeeper> ;-) On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 05/11/2015 03:40 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> >> wrote: >> >> As a case in point, I just opened up revNavigator from the plugins menu - >>> and it works in 7. Indeed, if I have objects with Unicode names, >>> revNavigator still works perfectly, displaying precisely what you would >>> expect. There was no need for me to modify the code, nor do anything to >>> the >>> stack. >>> >>> Ha, way to hit me where I live :-) Are developers really naming objects >> with unicode-only names? Why? It's not like "repeat" or "filter" are >> localized, so how much of a benefit is it really that variable names and >> object names can be in cyrillic? >> >> > Well, it may be that your work goes a lot more smoothly if you can give > your > variables and objects names that are relatively easy to remember because > they are > in your native language. > > I don't know what you call your variables and objects, but I always give > them names > that make sense to me and have some sort of connexion to their function: > flds such > as "OOT", "DOONBY", "BIGGIN", "BYRE" mak a heil puckle o sense tae ma mind > mair > than Sudron yins, as well as aa those that aiblins hae nummers: yin, twa, > three, fower, > fife, sax, se'en, nichan, teen. Now, sud I wark fae a stoor mon that has > Bulgarian fae his leid > he mun find it mense fu gif I caa them names he kens: КОТИКА, ТОРБИЧКА, > ОБОР. > > The unconscious arrogance of the English-speaking world never ceases to > amaze me. > > It might not be a bad idea to meditate on the fact that an awful lot of > people conduct > their daily lives using non-latinate writing systems. > > Richmond. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
