Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[Lynn Fredricks]

> I wasn't trying to imply that everyone should work in 
> english. For starters, there are many languages besides 
> english that use few or no non-ascii characters. But also, I 
> was just saying that since the language
> *itself* is in english, how much of a difference does it make 
> to work entirely within the ascii character set? Obviously 
> some (a lot?) but if that were the only use-case for unicode 
> it would be thin indeed.

The language is *derived* from English syntax, but so are most computer
languages in some respect. There have been some attempts to make programming
languages based on other languages, but they didn't get get very far. There
was one in France (I forget the name) and another in Japan (the "Tron"
project).

Objects need to be able to have native labels (menu items, etc).

Any application that manipulates text needs to follow the standard dejour
for that.

Consider for example, a contact manager or calendar application. Names must
be renderable correctly, often using the sort order that's appropriate to
the native language. There are many classes of applications that are not
possible without it.

Also, you have to look at the competition too. All the pro tools out there
support Unicode. Not supporting it is a disqualifier.

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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