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It would be better if the code was in ASCII, and both keyboards carried the ASCII symbols
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::::: 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instead of a Cyrillic one, and type a whole lot of escape sequences, so that not even a Russian can read it, but some outdated compiler will be happy.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)
:::::: He can type text using a Russian keyboard. We are not talking about text, we are talking about source code. He can have ASCII symbols on the keyboard, so that he can still enter source code. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 07:16, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
:::::: Supposing a person in Thailand, has written the source code using Thai characters, and the Russian wants to edit it. He has not got the Thai symbols on his keyboard. The job is not going to be easy. It would be better if the code was in ASCII, and both keyboards carried the ASCII symbols. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 08:
::::“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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