From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-22T22:10:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Internationalized source code, was: Re: CamelCase issues

On Friday 22 October 2004 04:49 am, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
| On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:56:34 +0900,
|
| trans.  (T. Onoma) <transami@runbox.com> wrote:
| > On one occasion someone (and I can't recall who it was unfortunately)
| > made a fair argument against dependency on capitalization, as it also
| > hampers progression into internationalization. Perhaps that's too
| > forward looking --maybe Ruby will never be coded in Bengali, for
| > instance, or any other language which have no capitalized forms. But I
| > would like to look in that direction at least.
|
| errrrr... what would I do with Bengali source code?

Probably nothing. But what would a non-English speaking Bengali do with yours?

OT. Actually this interests me. Is it fair to say that English is the defacto 
universal language now?  And, short of an apocalypse, just about everyone on 
Earth will eventually know this language?

T.