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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:28:39 -0500
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From: Clinton Jeffery <jeffery@segfault.cs.utsa.edu>
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from Todd Proebsting on Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:44:01 -0700)
Subject: Re: Unicode support or support for non-ASCII based character ma
Reply-To: jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
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> Jcon (http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/jcon) originally used Java's
> Unicode strings as the basis for implementing Icon strings. This was
> trivial to do, and we (Gregg Townsend and I) would have kept that
> implementation except that it was much too slow.
Ya, Jcon ought to be an easy solution for people who want Unicode!
If its trivial to do, I wonder if this is something that you could allow the
user to configure in if they need Unicode and are willing to pay for it.
Also, it may be that Java's Unicode performance will improve in the future.
Clint, jeffery@cs.utsa.edu