<div>I am not Chinese but I can read and write han characters (in Traditional </div>
<div>Chinese format (Big5 encoding) that is basically popular in Taiwan ). </div>
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<div>For the tests that I tried earlier, using han characters as the variable </div>
<div>names doesn't seem to be possible (Syntax Error) in python. I'd love</div>
<div>to see if I can use han char for all those keywords like import, but it</div>
<div>doesn't work. <br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christoph Zwerschke</b> <<a href="mailto:cito@online.de">cito@online.de</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">These were some interesting remarks, Terry.<br><br>I just asked myself how Chinese programmers feel about this. I don't
<br>know Chinese, but probably they could write a whole program using only<br>one-character names for variables, and it would be still readable (at<br>least for Chinese)... Would this be used or would they rather prefer to
<br>write in English on account of compatibilty issues (technical and human<br>readability in international projects) or because typing these chars is<br>more cumbersome than ascii chars? Any Chinese here?</blockquote>
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<div>That depends. People with ages in the middle or older probably have very</div>
<div>rare experience of typing han characters. But with the popularity of computer</div>
<div>as well as the development of excellent input packages, and most importantly,</div>
<div>the online-chats that many teenagers hooking to, next several geneartions </div>
<div>can type han char easily and comfortably. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>One thing that is lack in other languages is the "phrase input"---- almost every </div>
<div>han input package provides this customizable feature. With all these combined, </div>
<div>many of youngesters can type as fast as they talk. I believe many of them input </div>
<div>han characters much faster than inputting English.</div>
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<div>The "side effect" of this technology advance might be that in the future the </div>
<div>simplified chinese characters might deprecate, 'cos there's no need to simplify </div>
<div>any more.</div>
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