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From: gmt@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU (Gregg Townsend)
X-Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: Is Anyone Working On A Unicode Version Of Icon?
Date: 26 Apr 2000 09:28:22 -0700
To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
In article <LYBN4.9$pb6.213@client>,
Frank J. Lhota <NOSPAM.Frank.Lhota@lexma.meitech.com> wrote:
> A Unicode version could be quite useful, and it might not be that hard
> to do. Is anyone working on this?
A Unicode version of Jcon (the Java implementation of Icon) would not
be a huge task. The hardest problem would be deciding language issues,
notably the definitions of the predefined csets. You'd also want a
different internal representation for csets.
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Gregg Townsend Staff Scientist The University of Arizona
gmt@cs.arizona.edu Computer Science Tucson, Arizona, USA