1. Unicode
For Unicode, it seems to me Euphoria has a distinct advantage
over other languages since strings are just sequences,
and the elements of a sequence can be very large numbers.
(Integers can be more than 31 bits. More like 52 bits).
Built-ins like find() and match() are already very general.
They are not limited to strings, let alone strings containing
8-bit characters.
Some builtins do assume 8-bit characters, e.g. puts(), gets(),
dir() and a couple of others.
A Euphoria library could override these using Euphoria-coded
routines that support Unicode. The library could call Windows
or Linux/FreeBSD C routines that support Unicode.
Perhaps someone could create such a thing, and eventually
I could build it into Euphoria's C-coded runtime routines.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
2. Re: Unicode
If you want, you can use my Unicode Library.
If it needs changes in the API, just tell me.
It can read and write UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded files, and it comes
with a little tool to convert files from ASCII to Unicode and vice versa.
It should work cross-platform, because it's 100% pure Euphoria.
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tommy online: http://users.telenet.be/tommycarlier
tommy.blog: http://tommycarlier.blogspot.com
3. Re: Unicode
Tommy Carlier wrote:
> If you want, you can use my Unicode Library.
> If it needs changes in the API, just tell me.
> It can read and write UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded files, and it comes
> with a little tool to convert files from ASCII to Unicode and vice versa.
>
> It should work cross-platform, because it's 100% pure Euphoria.
Great.
I'll study it when I get around to working on this stuff.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
4. Re: Unicode
- Posted by Michael Raley <thinkways at yahoo.com>
Jun 30, 2006
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Last edited Jul 01, 2006
Tommy Carlier wrote:
>
> If you want, you can use my Unicode Library.
> If it needs changes in the API, just tell me.
> It can read and write UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded files, and it comes
> with a little tool to convert files from ASCII to Unicode and vice versa.
>
> It should work cross-platform, because it's 100% pure Euphoria.
>
> --
> tommy online: <a
> href="http://users.telenet.be/tommycarlier">http://users.telenet.be/tommycarlier</a>
> tommy.blog: <a
> href="http://tommycarlier.blogspot.com">http://tommycarlier.blogspot.com</a>
Yes, I use it to read the windows task scheduler log on XP
--"ask about our layaway plan".
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5. Re: Unicode
posted by: (not specified)
Hi Kat:
When using EuGTK(2) on Linux, Unicode support is built in, and
works without a problem, and can accept keyboard input for about 20
languages with a text editor, and/or you can embed the hex chars in your source.
The same does not seem to be true of Windows, which is perhaps the
result of not having the right fonts - or ? - I don't know.
Regards,
Irv
