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:::: The triangle symbol was a good example, but it is not the only problematic symbol. There was a really excellent article on this, but I can't find at the moment. What can you not write, because the source code is limited to ASCII? BTW I am not saying don't use Unicode output on a graphical display, I am just saying that source code should be editable using a traditional ascii based editor, and the symbols should be limited to those that are available on an ascii based keyboard. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 23:03, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
::::: Actually keyboard entry is important. I haven't got delta keys on my keyboard. To get that triangle, I have to type 6 keys: \u25b3, and this does not actually produce the triangle visual, but a gives a backslash followed by the hex code that I typed. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 23:35, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
::::: How humanist. So a Russian wishing to type some text in, I don't know, Russian, he should use an US keyboard instead of a Cyrillic one, and type a whole lot of escape sequences, so that not even a Russian can read it, but some outdated compiler will be happy. Do we serve the computers, or do they serve us? --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 01:30, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
::::“You just need to speak the language of the of compiler or interpreter.” Isn't it nice that a number of languages are happy to support non-ASCII in identifiers then? People can use (variations on) their own (human) language when communicating with the computer, and it will all be semantically sound too. Moreover, if the language supports them, it'd be a poor implementation of that language that didn't. ;–) –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 21:45, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
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