Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Internationalism and phonemes (was Re: For all...advertizing Message-ID: <548@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 31 Oct 90 15:08:49 GMT References: <1990Oct24.030917.18454@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <693@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 30 In article sutela@polaris.utu.fi (Kari Sutela) writes: >I'd think that such a library should also provide >functions for deciding word-breaking characters, etc. I find it annoying >when a text-editor word-wraps and breaks a Finnish word into two, just >because it considered an umlaut-a a non-word characte. Preferably >all accented characters should be considered as word-characters --- one >doesn't always write in one language, for example, foreign names could >include strange, accented characters. Gould point, why didn't this come from me? So here comes a PLEA TO ALL PROGRAMMERS: If you write a program that is considered to process text, precisely plain ASCII text, then use EVERY character that is available. (Well, a real control char still should remain a control char.) Two examples of how not to do it: 1. Type command in DOS with the hex option. Every char with the MSB set is displayed as a dot, even when it is quite a normal, readable char for other people (seems like I should write another enhancement request). 2. The less program used on earlier Fish disks as a replacement for more to look into the readmes. It just canceled the MSB, thus changing the 8-bit chars to some quite different 7-bit ones. And this in a time where Fred is so polite to let programmers put also their own language readmes (besides the English version) on the disk. They simply get crippled and look unprofessional. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk