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  2. Received: from kingfisher.CS.Arizona.EDU (kingfisher.CS.Arizona.EDU [192.12.69.239])
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  7. To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  8. Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:56:48 +0900
  9. From: Eric Hildum <Eric.Hildum@japan.ncr.com>
  10. Message-Id: <35F723CF.76B3CC97@Japan.NCR.COM>
  11. Organization: NCR Japan
  12. Sender: icon-group-request@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  13. Subject: Unicode support or support for non-Ascii based character manipulation?
  14. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
  15. Status: RO
  16.  
  17. Icon has been a very interesting language for string manipulation,
  18. however, the limit of supporting only ASCII makes it less useful for
  19. non-English language work. With the computer industry heading towards
  20. Unicode support, it should be possible to begin including support for
  21. non-English and non alphabetic languages. However, I suspect this would
  22. like lead to the need to change or generalize the semantics of a number
  23. of the string manipulation and character intrinsics.
  24.  
  25. Has anyone thought about this yet? What does string and pattern matching
  26. mean in, for example, Japanese?
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  30. Eric Hildum
  31. Eric.Hildum@Japan.NCR.COM
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