"Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" wrote:
> Currently, most Haskell systems don't support unicode anyway
> (I think, hbc is the only exception), so I guess this is not
> a pressing issue. As soon as, we have unicode support and
> there is a need for lexers handling unicode input, I am
> willing to extend the lexer library to gracefully handle the
> cases that you outlined.
I'm sorry, but I much object (strongly) towards this attitude.
It's this kind of reasoning that stops Unicode from becoming
widespread.
Soon the GHC people (or whoever :) will say "Well, why should we
support Unicode, there's all this software out there that breaks down
with it." and we're in a viscious circle.
Strong hint to various people:
Haskell has had Unicode for a long time now. I think that before
you start implementing various extensions to Haskell, perhaps you
should implement what the standard says should be there.
Implementing Unicode isn't that hard, just a few days work.
Strongly opposing Anglosaxan language imperialism
-- Lennart
