[clean-list] Re: Prospects for Unicode Support?

[Marco Kesseler]

Hi Welé,

>The Clean development team are best placed to answer the feasibility issues 
>of the extension of Clean. To begin with, the possibility of addressing all 
>Unicode characters together with basic operations should be 
>provided; on this 

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just to promote a bit of my own code: the 'Function Fragments' code 
on the Clean download pages contains a tiny bit of Unicode stuff. 
Obviously it does not contain true Unicode literals, but it does 
contain a conversion from/to ASCII (which is quite straightforward). 
There are also some encoding functions.

It is not much, and has not been tested thoroughly, but it's a start.

See
- Library/Base/Chars/UniChar
- Library/Encoding

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>basis, users could develop specific IO or other libraries as needed, leading 
>to their incremental integration and the transition of Clean towards a truly 
>global development environment, in say ten or twenty years time ...

I seriously don't think that it will take that long :-)

regards,
Marco