[bergie]

"German comments removal" sounds like a lot of work. It is always very annoying when programmers comment (or even name their variables/functions/whatever) using another language than English.

Most APIs are based on English so this makes a very messy combination. And yet people do it often, hindering the possibility of foreigners to contribute.

A recent example I've run into is the WYSIWYG editing extension for ShareJS, with all comments in Russian. I'd love to reuse it, but this just keeps me away:

https://github.com/rizzoma/ShareJS/blob/master/src/client/ri...

(note: I can read Cyrillic characters and do understand some Russian, but still)

[gpvos]

Note that the original StarOffice was written by a German company. These comments might be in the oldest parts of the code.

Wikipedia: > The German company StarDivision in Lüneburg (founded by 16-year-old Marco Börries in 1984) wrote the original components of StarOffice

[vhf]

  as detected by Miklos' nice bin/find-german-comments script

Don't know why, but it made me laugh.

  bin/german-and-comment

would have been a great pun.

[signalsignal]

I think bin/germane-comment would have been a great pun.

[graue]

I'm sorry, I've really tried and even said this out loud a couple times, but I don't get the pun. Explain?

[vhf]

Ich bin <=> I am

Ich bin Deutscher <=> I'm german

ich bin german and comment <=> I am german and comment

or bin german and comment <=> am Deutscher und kommentiere

[kobzevvv]

BTW, You don't have to use rizzoma source. We publish it just because people ask.

English version for our rich editor will be launched after supporting of most browsers be ready.