Re: gnubol: GNU Ada

[Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>]

Absolutely, I'm just waiting for flex to be enhanced for 16 bit
support - and I see that Unicode is starting to require 32 bits!

CD1.7 has internationalisation which I have not read up on.

Tim Josling

RKRayhawk@aol.com wrote:
> 
> IN posting valuable comments about GNU Ada,
> in a message dated 12/29/99 3:36:15 PM EST, tej@melbpc.org.au writes:
> 
> << It also has full wide character support,
>  even for compiler source - so identifiers can even be in chinese
>  characters!
>  >>
> 
> We may want to give some consideration to wide character data at some point
> soon. XML will be a vehicle to move displays of major repositories on the
> net, and it's international orientation has lead way into UTF (-8 and -16).
> We also have some codebase issues with big blue's EGCS and DBCS.
> 
> There was some discussion a while back about adding an attribute to a POINTER
> (as an extension) that could make it iterate by 16 bit units when
> incremented/decremented rather than 8 bit units (I think we were calling that
> a CLARK pointer, and ranting about how to isolate experimental code).
> 
> These aligators are all around us. Just waiting for us to expand the size of
> this effort before
> they devour us.
> 
> Getting the source code in fancy text format is another issue, I think.
> Should we read your comments, Tim, to be a voluntary revision of the
> preprocessor to UTF? :-)
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Bob Rayhawk
> RKRayhawk@aol.com
> 
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