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Article #613National character representation of C++ (was: design by committee)
From: Dag Bruck
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 1990 14:33
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 1990 14:33
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In article <1990Nov25.161506.9659@tsa.co.uk> domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes: >In article <1990Nov23.211727.2802@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu >(Henry Spencer) writes: >> I would have hoped that X3J16 would not be re-hashing all the dumb ideas... >> The right answer to national character sets is ISO Latin 1 or equivalent, > >equipment which talks using an 8-bit character set such as ISO Latin 1 >is an obvious (minimum) requirement for program development. Do you have an ISO Latin 1 keyboard? Do you suggest I could use one? ISO Latin 1 solves some of the output problems (ever considered why it's called ISO Latin *1*?), but it does not solve the input problem. I believe the current proposal by Bjarne Stroustrup has important merits by combining readability and writability, compared to trigraphs. I also know several people that prefer kerywords like 'or' instead of '|' even though they have a US keyboard. Dag Michael Br\"uck (who has his own problems, as you can see) -- Department of Automatic Control E-mail: dag@control.lth.se Lund Institute of Technology P. O. Box 118 Phone: +46 46-108779 S-221 00 Lund, SWEDEN Fax: +46 46-138118
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!lth.se!newsuser From: dag@control.lth.se (Dag Bruck) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: National character representation of C++ (was: design by committee) Summary: Do you have a non-ASCII terminal? Message-ID: <1990Nov27.143307.8086@lth.se> Date: 27 Nov 90 14:33:07 GMT References: <1016@zinn.MV.COM> <1990Nov23.211727.2802@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Nov25.161506.9659@tsa.co.uk> Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server) Organization: Department of Automatic Control, Lund, Sweden Lines: 25