[Lazarus] Proposal: Allow Umlaute and Accented Characters in Identifiers

[Dmitry Boyarintsev]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 10:08 AM Special via lazarus <
lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> on a Elementary  School near Heidelberg the nine-years-old pupils learn
> programming with Delphi 10.3 Community Edition. In one of the programs
> they use 'Type ZimmerType = (Küche, Wohnzimmer, Schlafzimmer);",
>

Having educational purposes in mind, can variable masking be
achieved through IDE itself, rather than the compiler.

If a character outside of ANSI range is met within an identifier, IDE would
replace it with something else.
So, instead of having "Küche" the source code would look like "K_Ache".
(the next character would be replaced with _B, _C ..and so on)

It doesn't have to be done on the fly, it could be done before starting the
compilation.
There are two benefits with this approach:
* no changes are needed for the compiler. (works with any version)
* the language rules of capitalization can be followed

thanks,
Dmitry
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