Subject: Case sensitivity, line labels and the future
From: Raymond Toy
Date: 15 Apr 2003 11:26:42 -0400
>>>>> "Felix" == Felix E Klee <felix.klee@inka.de> writes:
Felix> I just object the idea of handling and storing all data in lower case. Maxima
Felix> should handle Unicode by default. This will make it much more accessible to
Felix> people in non english environments. However, e.g. in the command line
Felix> interface the user should have an option (maybe as a command line switch) to
Felix> work in a case insensitive environment. In such an environment Unicode
Felix> characters are displayed and can be entered as %XXXX. And when such a user
Felix> doesn't use exotic 3rd party packages he doesn't even need to bother with
Felix> Unicode because everything is in lowercase anyways.
As an illiterate person, I would very much like it if all stuff in
maxima were written in English. [1]
Ray
Footnotes:
[1] I think that one of the barriers in Clisp development was that
most of the code and comments were in German. At least that
certainly hindered me. :-)