OpenEuphoria

Re: Strings

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at ?mail.c?m> May 30, 2008
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Shawn Pringle wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > 
> > If someone can figure out an easy way to do this, I suspect it'd get into
> > the language pretty quickly.  Of course, that ignores the prospect of 
> > Unicode, which is a whole 'nother can of worms, and also something that
> > will require some drastic recoding in the back end, though due to the
> > way that sequences are implemented, probably none in the front end.
> > 
> > Matt
> It seems you can do Unicode well enough already:
> 
> sequence shawn
> shawn = { 's', 'h', #0430, 'w','n' } -- a is cyrillic a.

Yes, wxEuphoria does this currently.

> You can use poke2 from words.e or poke2 from my own pokpeek2.e
> and use with a unicode C routine.  All manipulation works
> like any another sequence

Or you can poke2 with the built-in in 4.0.  But then you'll also have to
wrap all of your I/O functions, too.  That's where all the work will be.

Matt