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		croes on May 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser Do you know how often I need umlauts if I want a proper variable name?

wuiheerfoj on May 20, 2023 [–]

Not sure what language you speak, but in German umlauts can always be replaced with an ‚e‘ suffix. Having written codebases in German, I’ve never seen anybody actually use special chars in a var names! (probably a carryover from the pre-UTF-8 dark ages)

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