From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!smb
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: Programming in other languages
Article-I.D.: unc.3721
Posted: Thu Jul 22 09:06:14 1982
Received: Sun Jul 25 11:51:56 1982


Some languages present more difficulties than others.  Arabic and
Hebrew, for example, not only use non-Roman alphabets, but also read
from right to left.  This makes solutions like "English keywords, native
language variable names" impractical.  My understanding is that at least
in Israel, everyone programs in English -- knowledge of English is
required at the Technion for all students anyway, for example.  But that
doesn't help when you're writing a program that has to print Hebrew text,
even assuming a suitable I/O device.  How do you include Hebrew characters
in a C string?  (I heard this discussed at a conference in Jerusalem about
10 years ago.  Anyone up on current techniques?)


		--Steve Bellovin