Re: [jbosstools-dev] More i18n questions

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. > -- Best regards, Dmitry Geraskov dgeraskov(a)exadel.com Senior Developer Exadel Inc