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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 12:31:39 MST
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 10:38:02 -0700
From: Gregg Townsend <gmt>
Message-Id: <9510031738.AA01734@hawk.CS.Arizona.EDU>
To: gep2@computek.net, icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: Questions on map() and /
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
From: gep2@computek.net <Gordon Peterson>
Speaking of which... has anybody there at the Icon Project given thought
to the whole can of worms opened up by all this "Unicode" nonsense?
We have speculated about a Unicode version of Icon. As I recall we figured
it would take over half a year, full time, for somebody who's already an
expert on the implementation to convert Icon to Unicode and do it "right".
That's not likely to happen.
There are some intriguing questions about a Unicode implementation.
For example, should the representation of csets change? If so, how?
The current representation would cost 8K bytes (64K bits) for each cset
of Unicode.
Gregg Townsend / Computer Science Dept / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
+1 520 621 4325 gmt@CS.Arizona.EDU 110 57 16 W / 32 13 45 N / +758m