Something that I’ve always liked about the Windows NT platform and the .NET Framework is their excellent support for Unicode. Historically programming has been (and continues to be) very English-centric. This is not a problem for me as my native tongue is English, but I’ve learned a smattering of other languages over the years… French – I’m Canadian, eh!, Latin, I’m a geek, eh!, American Sign Language, that’s just cool, eh! I consider myself a multi-cultural person and can only imagine the huge language barrier that software development must present for non-English speakers. Abhinaba<\/A> has an example of using Hindi variable names<\/A> in a simple C# progam to show that the C# compiler supports Unicode. This looks so foreign to my Anglophone eyes, but is cool nonetheless. I like his idea of localizing the C# language itself by modifying the C# tokenizer in Mono. This would open up the world of programming to a much wider audience.<\/P> For the true geek, consider this… there is a mapping of Klingon<\/A> to the Private Use Area<\/A> of Unicode<\/A>. With suitable modification of the C# tokenizer, you could write an awesome first-person shooter in Klingon. Unfortunately Klingon# (or K# for short) would only compile applications involving serious bloodshed and gratuitous violence. Any other applications would result in a compiler error.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Something that I’ve always liked about the Windows NT platform and the .NET Framework is their excellent support for Unicode. Historically programming has been (and continues to be) very English-centric. This is not a problem for me as my native tongue is English, but I’ve learned a smattering of other languages over the years… French – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dotnetgeneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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