From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-15T19:42:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Accentuated function names

2008/12/15 Jean-baptiste H¨¦tier <djib.nospam@think-underground.com>:
> I've started a new project in Ruby. For once, my sourcecode is not in
> English, but in French, and I'd like to know if its possible to have
> accentuated letters for function names in the sourcecode.
>
> I have encoded my file in UTF-8 and it is parsed fine on Linux, but on
> Windows, I get warnings and errors:
> main.rb:16: Invalid char `\303' in expression
>
> Also, the accents do not display properly in the error messages:
> main.rb:34: syntax error, unexpected tFID, expecting '\n' or ';'
>  def appr©À(R)cie?(voisin)
> (instead of "appr¨¦cie?(voisin)")
>
> Is there a way to specify sourcefile encoding? I could drop the accents
> in the source, but they make the code much more readable!

IMHO it is generally a good idea to stick with 7 bit ASCII in source
code.  Also, I would never use my mother tongue for source code,
partly because keywords are English anyway (even though Matz is
Japanese) and partly because English is the lingua franca of IT.  I
know, this is not what you wanted to hear. :-)

Kind regards

robert

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