unicode chars in identifiers names

[mrspock1]

Is it possible to use national chars in identifiers (like variable names) in a similar way to Delphi?

[Thaddy]

Delphi can't do that..... (AFAIK) Delphi adheres strictly to Pascal naming conventions, just like FreePascal does.
The allowed range is defined as 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z', '_','0'..'9' and in both Delphi and Freepascal '&', which is not part of the language definition but an escape to resolve naming conflicts.
I would be amused to see an example, though....

[mrspock1]

You will be very amused to find this has been true for several years. I used national chars for variable names in Delphi Tokyo, which helped me a lot. Now I will need a hammer to replace all national chars in my code back to English chars.

[Thaddy]

Show example: I just tested Delphi 10.2.
Show example! A compilable - in Delphi -  example.....

[mrspock1]

Here it is.

One of my graph searching projects with national chars in identifiers names ąśżęćźółń

[Thaddy]

Here it is.

One of my graph searching projects with national chars in identifiers names ąśżęćźółń

Indeed. That is a bug in Delphi. It should never support that. It used to NOT support it.
This is food for a new discussion thread. Btw, with Macro's you can partially get something like that.

[mrspock1]

I think it was done on purpose to help to create readable code (the feature is also in php).

I was going to move my code from Delphi to Lazarus tomorrow, but now I will wait for changes in Lazarus to be done about that.

[wp]

but now I will wait for changes in Lazarus to be done about that.

You will have to wait long for that. And I hope that FPC will never have this feature...

Right-click on your localized identifiers, select "Refactoring" > "Rename identifier". Enter a good English name for it, select the scope needed and press "Rename all References". If you do it correctly this identifier will be renamed at all occurances. Repeat with the others. The reason why I recommend English identifiers: You are here in an international forum, and you are presenting obfuscated code to the people who are willing to help you. What if a non-native programmer enters your team? How do you imagine that anybody can help you if he/she does not understand the words in the code?

[ASerge]

...I recommend English identifiers...

+1
Use English and in the code comments.

[Thaddy]

Single biggest mistake as a "feature". It looks completely silly. I am installing wingdings as my favored editor font in D10.2. Somebody wasn't paying attention at Embarcadero.

[mrspock1]

As to fonts, there should be a total change like it is done in pdf. End user may not have installed fonts used by app. Now there is a method to create fonts on running, but it is awkward. Fonts should be attached to executable automatically.

[taazz]

so because you do not intent to evolve everything must stay static. Not implementing it is a choice you entitled to, demonizing it is an act you have no right to take. The choice to be international or not, is not for us to decide you either support it  or not and if you do not you have no right to complain.

[marcov]

Afaik this was a D2009 feature.

[Thaddy]

Afaik this was a D2009 feature.

Well, I have to admit it has been under the radar to me all the time. It's plain silly and it is not surprising a question like this turns up after "only" 10 years.....
I can read a bit of Polish but to anyone non-Polish or not at least a bit capable of the language this must be a nightmare 
To Paraphrase Asterix and the Helvetians they should drown the culprit engineer in fondue. (Of course a reference to the Swiss background of Pascal, which country with all its languages has its fair share of "estranged" characters).
I think I am really going to demo all my QC's to Embarcadero in Wingdings or better one of the Emoji fonts..<WTF?>

Is this supposed to be the "famed" backwards compatibility or retarded?

[Pascal]

In Object Pascal source code, you can use any Unicode characters for identifiers, but it
makes a lot of sense to stick to just ASCII characters and consistently use just the English
language in your code. Different Object Pascal language elements are in English, and it is
easier to work with other programmers who might use other languages as their mother
tongue.

So smileys too!