me: *uses accented letter in project name*
software: "you can only use letters"
me: fuck off you north-american centric piece of shit á IS a letter
@squirrel not even north-american centric, USA centric, which is even worse
P O L I T I C A L
@squirrel fucking á is a letter IN NORTH AMERICAN LANGUAGES, settler ass dipshits
P O L I T I C A L
@squirrel so is fucking 7 idiots (I'm anger at them not u btw)
@squirrel I was pretty stoked to realize pretty much all my programming language tools support UTF-8 encoding and emoji in variable names.
@squirrel Not if you want to communicate broadly, it isn't.
Intermediary pidgen is (virtually?) always simplified. Language exiists _between_, not _within_.
@dredmorbius literally what?
@dredmorbius i bet you're not even a real doctor
@dredmorbius @squirrel is "communicate broadly" a fancy way of saying "speak english"?
Because there's plenty of people with whom one can communicate in languages where á is significantly different from a.
@zatnosk @squirrel Again: pidgen, and library science, both rely on limited and controlled vocabularies and charactersets. But those aimed at common understanding.
In earlier times, common language (and/or charactersets) in Western tradition, were French, German (in physics), Latin, Arabic, and Greek. It's the /common/ aspect which dominates.
So: no.
@dredmorbius @zatnosk dude what the fuck is pidgen can you google that word for me real quick
@dredmorbius @zatnosk @squirrel so you want to prevent people from using languages other than english because it might mildly inconvenience someone developing a system
Not to mention the fact that the characters you're complaining about ARE ALSO USED IN ENGLISH
@squirrel @zatnosk @dredmorbius maybe you should take a break and go to a café and think about what you just said
Maybe have an éclair while you're there, you should find it on the à la carte menu
@dredmorbius @zatnosk @squirrel possibly some gâteau instead
Either way, bon appétit
i get political rly easy