skaller wrote:
> Ops like trim/strip will simply miss some whitespaces, they won't
> do the wrong thing provided they treat high bit set chars as non-space.
>   

That's only if you're using trim/strip to remove whitespace. You can 
also use them to trim substrings, or strip all the chars in a string. 
Those won't work on unicode.

>> How can we deal with this?
>>     
>
> We don't, it needs user libraries, some of which are extremely
> expensive because they need tables of 30,000 characters.
>   

We could just wrap one of the apis.

>> But it might be better to just write it in felix.
>>     
>
> Probably better in C++ because then it is pre-compiled.
> Felix code gets compiled every time.
>   

We really need to get precompiling felix code working :)

> Also, considerable expertise is required to maintain
> a library, why not let the project team working on it
> do that? We're short of resources.
>   

That's sadly true.

> But i have no idea if that library is useful: our RTL already
> has a UTF-8 codec I wrote.
>   

I missed that.


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