Re: Unicode in source code. WHY?

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Jul 20 1999 - 14:52:49 EDT

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Paul Keinanen wrote:

> If the design is in Finnish which refer to some existing
> local entities, it is much easier to use the the original name for an entity
> than try to translate the name to English (and two programmers would come up
> with different translations :-).

This is an extremely important point.

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