> On Jan 27, 2016, at 11:49, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: > > > On Jan 27, 2016, at 6:38 AM, Dave wrote: > >> >>>> >>>>> I'm going to step out on a limb and since Xcode has supported editing in >>>>> UTF-8 and 16, that we look into those character sets and pick some >>>>> symbols that accurately represent public, protected and private. >>>> >>>> Now you’re pulling our legs, right Alex? >>> >>> Yeah, I know. It's really non conventional, buuut… I've started using some >>> of the characters such as the block and non breaking line to make better >>> formatting for comments and logging. >> >> Wow Man, you *do* like living on the wild-side. I hope it doesn’t come back >> to bite you! > > Wise words. > > I base this attempt on a fair amount of crash test dummies who have risked > this before me and constantly asking questions. Is the character set > supported by Xcode? By Git?
Both support UTF-8. Full stop. > The popups in the right side of Inspector Panel with a setting for Text > Encoding and the amount of people who I've seen code in Japanese with the > UTF-16 encoding justified me asking this. Just stick to UTF-8 and you'll be fine. UTF-16 is a silly encoding to use for source code :) > > But for those crazy Swift kids who are using smilies in variable names, I'm > going to let them drive the crash test vehicle. > >>> Other people who are on the Swift side of things are even using smilies and >>> emoticons in their code. Or so they claim. That scares me. >> >> I’m more of a if its not in the ASCII set it ain’t Source Code brigade! lol >> >> All the Best >> Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/clarkcox3%40gmail.com > > This email sent to clarkc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
