- From: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:25:06 -0400
- To: kent.karlsson14@comhem.se, www-international@w3.org
Thanks for the info. Actually I often use a library computer, in the U.S., and I have not found a convenient way to type accents on it. So I put my accents into html pages using numeric encodings, é or whatever, & these would be useless in comments since they are special html characters & need to be displayed in a browser; #233; in notepad looks like #233; nothing readable. (I don't even regularly put accents into my email in other languages; & in fact sometimes accents do not display right; but thanks for telling me that accents are safe in comments for script functions & such, as I now know I can cut & paste accents into my comments, first, I just go somewhere I can type accents, then copy & paste those into my comments-- so long as they are ansi characters (http://www.alanwood.net/demos/ansi.html) and will display in a plain text file; remember there is no display except what notepad [or whatever editor is in use] provides-- So I'm still unsure: should I update the comments in my French translation? I can get accented characters into an ANSI text file which is what notepad lets me create for the source code-- ?? now this may be a dumb question, but do all versions of notepad display the same ansi characters the same way that my notepad displays source code?? [it is normally notepad that is used for displaying source code, sometimes it is something else; and since a user can ask to edit a page in Microsoft Word or Front page depending on what is on his/her computer then you can end up ultimately viewing the source using Microsoft Word ; I wonder if it varies from country to country how accented characters in the source are displayed in notepad or Word; I feel like I am getting way out of my knowledge base here . . . ] ) Thanks. --C. E. Whitehead cewcathar@hotmail.com > >CE Whitehead wrote: > > > (French works o.k. though in comments; you just leave off the accents; > > so you can have French or any Latin character set languages > > in the code part of a document) > >Nit: Why do you leave off the accents? Comments are skipped in >their entirety (whatever the encoding). I have source code >with comments with all sorts of characters in them (most often >encoded in UTF-8), except something that terminates the comment >of course (linefeed or whatever). So far, none of the compilers >I regularly use in recent years has complained about that. String/ >character literals and identifiers are unfortunately still another >matter. > > /k > _________________________________________________________________ Download Messenger. Join the i’m Initiative. Help make a difference today. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGHM_APR07
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