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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:57:31 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV][DISCUSSION] Multilingual PHP
From: walterp@gmail.com (Walter Parker)

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I also am old enough to have used/remember using BASIC. I remember German
and Japanese friends that wrote in BASIC. It was interesting to see German
programs where all the keywords were in English and all the text was in
German. The Japanese was even more strange as the system had to switch
between the code pages for ASCII/LATIN and the one for the Japanese
Language.

Today to get something other an ASCII/LATIN, we would have to support
Unicode for source code. Does PHP currently work if Unicode is used for
identifiers?


Walter

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 2:36 PM Bruce Weirdan <weirdan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:17 AM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This may be harder for people having a native language with a different
> > alphabet, though.
> >
>
> That's unlikely to be a problem. Even to get to the PHP manual you have to
> type `www.php.net` (or `google.com` if you want to google something),
> so it implies you have a way to enter latin characters. Keyboard layout
> switching is a problem solved decades ago.
>
> --
>   Best regards,
>       Bruce Weirdan                                     mailto:
> weirdan@gmail.com
>


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