> 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.
The language is *derived* from English syntax, but so are most computer languages in some respect. There have been some attempts to make programming languages based on other languages, but they didn't get get very far. There was one in France (I forget the name) and another in Japan (the "Tron" project). Objects need to be able to have native labels (menu items, etc). Any application that manipulates text needs to follow the standard dejour for that. Consider for example, a contact manager or calendar application. Names must be renderable correctly, often using the sort order that's appropriate to the native language. There are many classes of applications that are not possible without it. Also, you have to look at the competition too. All the pro tools out there support Unicode. Not supporting it is a disqualifier. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ 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
