Re: Unicode in source (Was Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question)

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

Pascal J. Bourguignon writes:
 > Because it's easier to learn English and easier to type quantity instead
 > of quantita, than to learn 8000+ ideograms and type one of them.

Not an absolute truth, especially if those ideograms are the way your
mother tongue is written, or if you English skills are poor (you can't
think in English) or simply you feel a bit too much colonized by the
English language :).

I admit that most Italian programmer would write qta to save typing ;).

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Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO