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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sat, 5 Feb 1994 21:42:37 MST
  2. Date: 27 Jan 94 22:41:52 GMT
  3. From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!newncar!uchinews!quads!goer@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Richard L. Goerwitz)
  4. Organization: University of Chicago
  5. Subject: Re: Is Icon Compatible with Other Character Sets
  6. Message-Id: <1994Jan27.224152.23594@midway.uchicago.edu>
  7. References: <2i8tdf$i60@nh1.u-aizu.ac.jp>
  8. Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
  9. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  10. Status: R
  11. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  12.  
  13. nehaniv@u-aizu.ac.jp (Chrystopher Nehaniv) writes:
  14. >
  15. > If I try to use icon with character sets that are
  16. > 8 bit or 2 byte (like Japanese kanji), will it
  17. > choke?
  18.  
  19. 8 bit is fine.  But I don't think that Icon knows about so-called long
  20. characters.
  21.  
  22. You'd think that a language renowned for character and string proces-
  23. sing would handle multinational and extended character encoding stand-
  24. ards, but in fact I think someone would have to go through and really
  25. think hard about what they would mean for csets.  The implementation
  26. would have to be altered on some basic level for strings, too, since
  27. these assume 8-bit characters.  Probably lotsa other stuff, too.
  28.  
  29. I dunno:  Does anyone working on implementation details know whether
  30. there are any plans for alternate-width characters?
  31.  
  32. -- 
  33.  
  34.    -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
  35.    goer@midway.uchicago.edu          rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
  36.