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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Reneging on promises (Internationalization)
Message-ID: <2469@enea.se>
Date: 27 Jan 91 12:22:29 GMT
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Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
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Also sprach Erik M. van der Poel (erik@srava.sra.co.jp):
>codes, and (b) is where you get the software to deal with ISO 646 by
>avoiding the use of ISO 646 substitutable characters in programming
>constructs, etc. With (b) you create incompatibility between e.g.
>Scandinavia and USA, which I would think is a very big disadvantage.

Only if we hack the compiler locally or write our own stuff. What
I want is of course alternative characters, so I don't have to
use the brackets and braces. Some languages like Pascal provides
this.
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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