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Re: [SG16-Unicode] Ideas for the future

From: Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen_at_[hidden]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:34:50 +0300
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 18:30, Lev Minkovsky <lminkovsky_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Alas, speakers of RTL languages would probably find it more convenient to use standard English C++.
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> I never mean the C++ to be translatable into all 200+ world languages that have writing. Each and every such translation will indeed be a major undertaking. The language keywords will actually be an easy part. More difficult will be to translate the library. I suspect the only realistic solution will be to create a set of “national” headers that will map onto the established definitions. For example, the стдвв.г header I used in the example could include the following definition

The last time I ran into localized programming languages were certain
spreadsheet automation languages,
and the users of those that I talked to very strongly asked "please
don't allow anyone to do this ever
again".

Received on 2019-07-30 17:35:04