On 5/14/07, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you been able to find substantial Java source in which non-ascii
> identifiers were used? I have been curious about its prevalence, but
> wouldn't even know how to start searching for such code.
No, I haven't.
The most substantial use cases (if any) would have to be
in closed source code, which is hard to find.
I spent a little time looking for Java tutorials in a few
languages: Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean. Couldn't
find anything in Chinese. (I don't know these languages. I
have no idea if I was looking in the right places, etc.)
- For identifiers, the Spanish-language tutorials mostly
used Spanish words stripped down to ASCII (accents
and tildes dropped).
- The Korean and Japanese tutorials I found (3 total)
used English identifiers exclusively.
They did tend to use non-English characters freely in
comments and (about half the time) in string literals.
The Japanese tutorials had no comments at all in the
code.
-j
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