[jbosstools-dev] More i18n questions

Max Rydahl Andersen max.andersen at redhat.com
Wed Jul 1 03:41:18 EDT 2009


> 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 :)

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.

/max



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