[jbosstools-dev] More i18n questions

[Dmitry Geraskov]

Sean Flanigan wrote:
> On 01/07/09 17:41, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> My good friend dart once demonstrated for me that now in java you can
>>> actually use chinese / japanese characters in class and method names
>>> also.
>> Yes, Java support UTF-8 in their Java lang spec - one of their selling
>> points when it came out, which luckily did not catch on too much.
>> I did have to do a consultancy gig once where they used Portuguese words
>> and accents in the code....veery hard to debug :)
>
> Yeah, I think you can start a Java identifier with almost any 
> character on the planet... except ASCII punctuation and the "arabic" 
> digits 0-9. I think all the other Unicode digits are fine: 
> http://www2.hawaii.edu/~hlibcat/documents/246.html
Even more, following code will work fine:

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int \u006d\u0079\u0056\u0061\u0072 = 1; /*int myVar = 1; 
\u002a\u002f
        System.out.println(myVar);
    }
}

You should take this into account when you parse code. User could close 
comment by unicode representation.
Eclipse colouring doesn't take it into account.


>
>> On the subject of translating code generated comments then I would say
>> we shouldn't, it is simply too much work and we risk the examples
>> to go out of sync. It is more important that the code example runs/works
>> than its comments are in a localized language.
>
> Yeah, that's my feeling too.  I just wanted to make sure to have the 
> discussion, since there are pro's and con's.
>

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Best regards,

 Dmitry Geraskov              
 dgeraskov at exadel.com
 Senior Developer
 Exadel Inc