The 2.0 had a UNICODE datatype, and you could write: make unicode! 100 to-unicode In addition, this is the reason why REBOL escaped hex-coding is put in parens, like: ^(3A) So we can allow unicode escapes as: ^(1B3A) Unfortunately, as for the rest of it, under the time pressures, we had to drop it, but it is not forgotten. Someday it will rise again. -Carl At 11/29/99 09:04 PM +0100, you wrote: >Hi Rebols, > >I stumbled over this today: > >... It's no accident that the latest development version of Perl >lets you name your variables with any characters that are considered >to be alphanumeric in Unicode. That includes ideographs. There >are a billion people in China. And I want them to be able to pass >notes to each other written in Perl. I want them to be able to write >poetry in Perl. >... > >(Larry Wall, in the O'Reilly book "Open Sources") > >Though Unicode would bloat the code, this seems a very good reason >to include it. Given that Rebol is called a communication language. > > >regards, > >Ingo > >-- _ . _ >ingo@)|_ /| _| _ <We ARE all ONE www._|_o _ _ ._ _ >www./_|_) |o(_|(/_ We ARE all FREE> ingo@| |(_|o(_)| (_| >http://www.2b1.de/Rebol/ ._| ._| >
