On 04/27/2011 02:23 PM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
On 04/27/2011 11:46 AM, Marsh Ray wrote:
[comments about ASCII requirement]
A suggestion was made at one point that an ASCII transliteration of Japanese would be a possible solution, and I think most of us can agreed that should be rejected immediately as a non-viable solution.
However, forcing MSVC users to use one of the Windows "ANSI" encodings, such as windows-936, wouldn't be nearly such an impediment.
I've worked at places where I couldn't use certain Boost libraries because I couldn't change the necessary compiler setting to work around a well-documented bug in MSVC). At this place they also questioned whitespace changes which were not even affecting visible formatting. Thankfully I don't work there any more. I don't know how much of a change it is for a software developer in Japan to convince his team to change their source file encoding so they can use some library. It's probably non-trivial. What I do know, however, is that the set of users who are candidates for ending up as happy users of a library is always much greater when the library developers don't think they can "force" users to adopt specific compiler settings or agree to other nonstandard constraints. - Marsh