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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 4 Jul 2020, Special via lazarus wrote:

> Am 03.07.2020 um 16:13 schrieb Martin Frb via lazarus:
>> On 03/07/2020 14:55, Péter Gábor via lazarus wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> Then you must allow Cyrillic,d Arabic and so Chinese and other national
>>> and special characters to be used in identifiers.
>> Worse, the same source may then compile or fail to compile depending on the 
>> locale.
>> 
>> Pascal is case insensitive.
>> var I: integer; // upper i
>> ...
>> for i := 0 to x do ...;
>> 
>> compiles today.
>> 
>> But when compiling, using Turkish locale, this would fail.
>> In Turkish there is a dotted and a dotless i, both upper and lower.
>> So I and i are different letters.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I
>
> Hi,
>
> if Lazarus had an option "Allow accented Latin characters and Umlauts in 
> identifiers", then Cyrillic, Arabic and Chinese and other special national 
> charcters and dotted characters like the Turkish "I." were not included 
> ('Dotted' is not 'Accented').  So we could enjoy the benefits of this 
> proposal without the drawbacks.

Sorry, I don't think this is right.

Why should Russian, Chinese or Arabic or any non-latin alphabet students 
be disadvantaged compared to western students ?

Either you allow them all (with all that implies) or none (as it is now).

Michael.