[Lazarus] German umlauts in component names

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:45:02 +0200
Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 04.04.2016 11:40 schrieb "Special" <Special at joepgen.com>:
> > What problems, Denis? We use component names like "SchließenButton" since
> many years with Delphi in training programs for german pupils. And in code
> for the international community, we don't use it.
> 
> *You* might do this, but others might not, they might publish projects on
> GitHub containing Chinese identifiers.

This is an English mailing list, so naturally you will find many
thinking the same here.
But many people want to use non English words as identifiers. They need
non English letters.

> As funny as the idea of using emojis for identifiers sound as scary it is.
> So I don't really support this.

I share your concerns about non English keywords. For identifiers I
see some gain.

Do the linker, assembler, debugger support UTF encoded identifiers? At
least on Win, Linux, Mac?

Mattias