Re: [boost] MSVC doesn't like some high-ASCII characters on non-US systems

From: Paul Giaccone (paulg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-04 10:47:54

Philipp Thomas wrote:

>* Paul Giaccone (paulg_at_[hidden]) [20060404 11:34]:
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>>* German ë, ö and ü can be replaced by ae, oe and ue respectively - this 
>>is standard practice in German.
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>No, you can't simply replace it, specially in names, as you loose the ability
>to discern those names that actually do contain ae, oe or ue. In these cases
>the old TeX way of writing them would be preferable. 
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Ah, I was under the impression that they were always interchangeable 
(and that you could always write "Gerhard Schroeder" for "Gerhard 
Schröder" [the former Chancellor of Germany]). As you are German, I 
assume, and my knowledge of German is very limited, I'm sure you know 
better than I do.

However, if this is the only objection to doing this, surely it a small 
price to pay. It is very unlikely that Boost will have two developers 
whose names differ in this way, and even if that should happen, there 
are other ways that they could be distinguished (for example, "Klaus 
Schroeder who wrote the X library" and "Klaus Schroeder who wrote the Y 
library", or "Klaus Schroeder (I)" and "Klaus Schroeder (II)" (rather 
like the system IMDb uses for namesakes).

When you say "the old TeX way", do you mean writing \~n for n-tilde, for 
example? I'm not sure Joaquin would like to see his last name written as 
Mu\~noz - to me, it looks ugly or like it has been mistyped or mangled. 
No, to me, this makes the names difficult to read and can't be the 
appropriate solution.

Paul