Re: [Cppcms-users] non-ASCII characters in English - Re: Boost.Locale formal review

[Artyom <art...@ya...>]

Hello,

Actually I had decided to change the interface
so it would allow non-ASCII characters mostly
because of support of international characters
like (C) - copyright and so on.

Also it is quite common that translation exists
even for English where originally the string
is:



   translate("(C) 2011 Cristian Onet")

While the translation to English becomes


    translate("© 2011 Cristian Oneț")

Mostly because the total nightmare with
non-ASCII characters in cross platform code
(at least for thous who support MSVC)

So still US-ASCII is the recommended string encoding
for the keys.

Artyom

P.S.: Cristian Oneț sorry for using your name
      as example it was just one that easy to find.


> From: augustin <aug...@ov...>
> 
> Hello Artyom,
> 
> 
> I was a bit early with my previous message, given the  extension in the review 

> process... but now that boost.locale is officially  accepted, accept, again, my 
>
> congratulations.
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/218369
> 
> I  just had a quick look at the long discussion today. I certainly don't know 
> enough of the technical intricacies to make any informed comment. 
> 
> However, I wanted to point something out (I am not subscribed to the  boost-
> devel list, so I post it here):
> 
> On the one side, I applaud you  for pushing for a common utf8 standard. 
> On the other side, please note that  pure ASCII characters are *NOT* enough to 

> write proper English. Beside  characters like @, as already noted, English uses 
>
> many foreign words that  are accented 
> E.g:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_words_and_phrases_used_by_English_speakers
>s
> God  knows which software would use some of the accented words of French origin 
>
> in the above list within an English interface. 
> 
> The following  accented word is fairly common in English and may appear in a 
> user form  within a web application or a genealogy  software:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Né
> So the concerns about the ASCII  limitations for the translation keys have some 
>
> ground.
> 
> On the other  hand, I have seen your latest comment on the  topic:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/218543
> 
> Since  I use UTF-8 and gcc by default, I don't need to wait for c++1x, so I am 

> not  too worried in any case :)
> 
> I simply wanted to comfort you in the idea  that you probably made the good 
> decision.
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Augustin.
> 
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