On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:18:55AM +0000, José Matos wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 3:22 pm, Helge Hafting wrote:
> >
> > Now that'd be fine. I have no problems with a GUIName, although
> > using unicode for everything is simpler. Well, if we ever get an unicode-
> > capable gettext that is. :-/
>
> The right analogy is to think about the style name as the variable name,
> used by lyx.
>
> There are lots of languages that support unicode, but very few which accept
> unicode in variables. One example that I remember is R (the free
> implementation of S).
>
> > Ascii is very limiting for languages using more letters - try rewriting
> > the existing .layouts without the letter "e" to get a feel of what I mean.
>
> I am sensible to that argument, after all I use accents everyday. :-)
I can live without them pretty well, even though somebody decided to
call me Andr\'e{} P\"o{}nitz (not to mention having lived in a street
called K\"a{}rrnerwegsiedlung in a village called R\"o{}dlitz for most
part of my "stationary" life)
Andre'
[The problem is that nowadays it is sometimes more diffucult to enter a
single quote than a proper umlaut in some web forms...]
