Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> writes: > On 12/12/2014, 4:12 AM, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: >> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> users of other languages may want to have messages and variable names >>> in their native language, and ASCII might not be enough for that. >> >> Allowing for messages in non-ASCII encodings would probably be a good >> idea, but I think allowing non-ASCII variable names is dangerous. > > Dangerous in what way?
Perhaps "dangerous" is a little too strong, but it opens up possibilities for problems with sharing code or running it on other systems. Also, judging by the many files I've seen (and created myself :) with a mixture of iso8859-1 and utf8, or with "double-encoded" utf8, it is surprisingly easy to make encoding mistakes when editing or processing files. And as Jan Kim wrote, you could get things that look similar but are different. -- Regards, Bjørn-Helge Mevik ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
