OpenEuphoria

Re: Accented characters in identifiers

• Posted by Igor Kachan <kinz at peterl?nk?ru> Jun 03, 2008
• 748 views

CChris wrote:
> 
> Igor Kachan wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > There are buggy bilingual interpreter for
> > Linux exu_r and ex.err files for two euphoria/demos/linux
> > programs in this package:
> > 
> > http://www.private.peterlink.ru/kinz/exu_r_25.zip
> > 
> > Try please, if you want.
> > 
> > sanity.ex works ok with exu_r - 100% passed.
> > 
> 
> Got those files, which are hardly informative indeed.

Yes, it is a good puzzle  
Ok, you can see the changes to 2.5 source
code here (gotten by the diff program) :

http://www.private.peterlink.ru/kinz/changes.zip

> I think any implementation of acccented chars (allowing any UTF-8 char in
> identifiers
> is trivial, they just may cause display concerns when the code page is not the
> original one) would be done with the new tools in 4.0, and there wil be many.

That code above uses just the DOS code pages, not UTF-8.
Watcom has the single code page for the DOS pixel
modes, so you have to replace fonts in your localised
interpreter.

> Perhaps you, Rob and Jeremy might want to discuss this?

I do not think Rob wants those changes to official EU
just now, maybe 8.0    

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru