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