[antlr-interest] multilingual IDE

[Johannes Luber]

Edwards, Waverly schrieb:
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> This may be off topic but when people refer to multilingual IDE and
> Unicode, is this ever used within the editor?
> I understand menus, buttons or other controls.  Would the source code
> ever need to be encoded other than
> ASCII?  My question really boils down to is in source code would you
> ever see variables, quoted strings or
> comments in an encoding other than ASCII? I am ignorant on this subject
> but I also cant seem to find any
> examples that would lead me in any direction.  Are non-Latin based
> language speakers forced to use ASCII
> only encoding?

Well, it depends on the programming languages. Newer ones specify their
input as UTF-8 or UTF-16, so people can indeed program in their native
languages (although symbols and keywords won't change - one reason I
program solely in English). Older programming languages specify that
identifiers have to be chosen from [a-zA-Z0-9_], but allow in comments
arbitrary input. This means that either you have to write in English or
to mangle variable names (like "Zähler" as "Zaehler").

Johannes
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> Insights of all kinds very much welcome.
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> W.
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