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  3.     by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id HAA15614
  4.     for icon-group-addresses; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:35:19 -0700 (MST)
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  6. From: gmt@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU (Gregg Townsend)
  7. X-Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
  8. Subject: Re: Is Anyone Working On A Unicode Version Of Icon?
  9. Date: 26 Apr 2000 09:28:22 -0700
  10. To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  11. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  12. Status: RO
  13.  
  14. In article <LYBN4.9$pb6.213@client>,
  15. Frank J. Lhota <NOSPAM.Frank.Lhota@lexma.meitech.com> wrote:
  16. >  A Unicode version could be quite useful, and it might not be that hard
  17. >  to do. Is anyone working on this?
  18.  
  19. A Unicode version of Jcon (the Java implementation of Icon) would not
  20. be a huge task.  The hardest problem would be deciding language issues,
  21. notably the definitions of the predefined csets.  You'd also want a
  22. different internal representation for csets.
  23.  
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  25.    Gregg Townsend         Staff Scientist      The University of Arizona
  26.    gmt@cs.arizona.edu     Computer Science     Tucson, Arizona, USA
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