W dniu 27.01.2022 o 22:01, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:22:02 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
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Hebrew is much harder (for computers) than "latin-like" alphabets like
Polish, Spanish, German, etc.
Harder only for obsolete computers.
No, it's harder for users.
I did use (play with) very strange characters in PC-DOS, 30+ years ago.
I did play with Hebrew Windows 3.1, etc.
However I see no technical reason to use such names in production.
Your new_and_shining computer can manage any character, but maybe
someone has older terminal or connects from
also_new_and_shining_BUT_DIFFERENT computer and then my Ł would become ⁴
or so.
BTW: In the very old days my master thesis was crippled by slightly
different versions of MS Word. ł was changed to 3 upper index. It
happened in math formulas only. And the ł was in lower index. Inception...
Of course it was data, not filename. The filename was in 8.3 format.
Nevermind, this is off-topic.
My question was WHY? Why bother with non-typical names? What is the
rationale behind?
As far as I know, no one tries to use Hebrew or Cyrillic characters in
dataset or member names. Even no lowercase.
And of course it caused some troubles - that's why we see this thread on
the list.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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