Re: "Raw" string literals for elisp

[Daniel Brooks]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   >  Limiting Emacs source code to English and ASCII will ultimately
>   > only limit the acceptibility of Emacs rather than improve it.
>
> The GNU Coding Standards says that code should be in English, and
> comments too.  See nodes Names and Comments.  This is because Emacs is
> the worldwide language of programming.  Using any other language for
> identifiers and comments makes the program incomprehensible for most
> of the world.
>
> It's ok to include non-ASCII characters in strings and comments in
> special circumstances, when you're talking about a particular
> characters or operating on them.

Oops, I should have expected that this would be written down
somewhere. Thanks for pointing it out for me.

db48x