RE: gnubol: GNU Ada

["William M. Klein" <wmklein@ix.netcom.com>]

Both UTF-8 and other 10646 formats (aka Unicode) support is quite integral to
the revision of the Standard.  It is not, however, trivial or isolated. It
required new data types, new categories, new functions, and revisions of many
existing rules.

Bill Klein
  wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnu-cobol@wallace.lusars.net
> [mailto:owner-gnu-cobol@wallace.lusars.net]On Behalf Of Tim Josling
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 6:36 AM
> To: gnu-cobol@lusars.net
> Subject: Re: gnubol: GNU Ada
>
>
> 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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