[clean-list] Prospects for Unicode Support?
Marco Kesseler
m.kesseler@aia-itp.com
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:15:09 +0200
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Dear Clean Developers;=20
What are the prospects for a Clean version that is more or less =
Unicode compliant? Is it planned? If yes, do you have a time frame?=20
Thanks in advance.=20
Wel=E9 Negga
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What kind of things are you thinking about?
- Unicode literals?
- Basic operations (concat, substring, search, ...)?
- Character classification (isletter, isdigit, ...)?
- Conversions to/from other codepages?
- Encodings (UTF8, UTF16, UCS-2, ...)?
- Rendering (GUI, Printing)?
- Having Unicode variants of (IO) lib functions?
- Having Unicode identifiers in Clean itself?
What would be real show-stoppers? What would be nice to have, but not =
essential?
regards,
Marco
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<DIV><BR>Dear Clean Developers; <BR><BR>What are the prospects for a =
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version that is more or less Unicode compliant? Is it planned? If yes, =
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have a time frame? <BR><BR>Thanks in advance. <BR><BR>Wel=E9 =
Negga</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>What kind of things are you thinking=20
about?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- Unicode literals?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- Basic operations (concat, substring, =
search,=20
...)?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- Character classification (isletter, =
isdigit,=20
...)?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- Conversions to/from other =
codepages?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- Encodings (UTF8, UTF16, UCS-2, =
...)?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- Rendering (GUI, =
Printing)?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- Having Unicode variants of (IO) lib=20
functions?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>- Having Unicode identifiers in Clean=20
itself?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>What would be real show-stoppers? What =
would be=20
nice to have, but not essential?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Marco</FONT></DIV>
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