#1103: Japanese Unicode
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Reporter: humasect | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.6.1
Component: Compiler (Parser) | Version: 6.6
Severity: major | Resolution:
Keywords: japanese unicode lexical -fglasgow-exts | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Architecture: Unknown
Os: Multiple |
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Comment (by ross):
I don't think there's any reason why these characters couldn't be treated
as upper or lower case letters; the question is which. We'd want to treat
all the members of a Unicode General Category the same way, because
special cases would be too cumbersome. A lexical syntax based on the case
of letters was never going to work well with caseless scripts.
Kanji, katakana and hiragana all belong to the Letter, Other category. If
we treated these as lower case, your third example would work, but you'd
have to adopt a convention of prepending capital letters (like M, C, T and
D) to Japanese module, class, type and data constructor names. (The same
would apply to all the other caseless scripts too.)
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