Maybe it is hard to understand for you, so I'll try to explain again:
Yes, I use Polish names in Poland. However my name is Radosław - note
the Ł character. But my signature is "Radoslaw". Why? For you. For you,
and for those who does not know Polish. Vast majority of Hebrew,
Russian, Bulgarian, Greek, etc. names are also somehow "translated" (or
transliterated) to latin. I mean email, etc.
My company email id contains radoslaw.skorupka - again no polish
characters.
And my datasets names are also without ĄĆĘŁŃÓŚŹŻ. Datasets and
filenames. Why? Just for convenience. Could it be a problem? Author of
the thread has such problem.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 28.01.2022 o 01:57, Seymour J Metz pisze:
Do you use Polish names in Poland? Do they use French names in France? Why
wouldn't somebody use their native language for file names?
The rest of the world is, or is rapidly becoming, Unicode. Expecting users to
confine their file names to an 8-bit code page is an exercise in futility.
I'm comfortable with EBCDIC, but outsize of z it's becoming increasingly more
irrelevant.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names
W dniu 27.01.2022 o 22:01, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:22:02 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
...
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.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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