Re: [DISCUSSION] Multilingual PHP
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:09:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [DISCUSSION] Multilingual PHP | ||
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On Thu, 11 Apr 2019, Walter Parker wrote:
> I also am old enough to have used/remember using BASIC. I remember German
> and Japanese friends that wrote in BASIC. It was interesting to see German
> programs where all the keywords were in English and all the text was in
> German. The Japanese was even more strange as the system had to switch
> between the code pages for ASCII/LATIN and the one for the Japanese
> Language.
>
> Today to get something other an ASCII/LATIN, we would have to support
> Unicode for source code. Does PHP currently work if Unicode is used for
> identifiers?
Yes. You can use UTF-8 for function names and variables (but please
don't!). My favourite annoyance is using a non breaking space in
function/method names ;-)
cheers,
Derick