Regarding Unicode: there is a sandbox by the ooRexx developer Jean-Louis Faucher which I looked up again, knowing from earlier analysis of the various ooRexx sandbox projects, that he has experimented with Unicode and ooRexx in the past!
Jean-Louis was obviously engaged in a port of an 8-Bit-Windows application to Unicode and created a document that describes this process, the challenges, the problems and how he or his group proceeded to successfully create a port to Unicode. This document can be found in his sandbox. Obviously, he also seems to have started to experiment with ooRexx and Unicode support and documented what he has done, thought together with screenshots which indicate as if he was (partially?) able to add some Unicode support to ooRexx. This document can be found in his sandbox. As a lot of things need to be known before really tackling this area, I thought it might be a good thing to make his two OpenOffice.org documents available as PDF-files. So I temporarily uploaded the two documents in PDF-form to <http://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/rexx/tmp/20110215-Unicode/>. I hope Jean-Louis Faucher does not mind (if you do, please let me know and I will remove the PDFs; but I thought because the documents are in the publically available sandbox, that having a plain, unaltered PDF-rendering would be o.k.). Reading those documents is truly exciting! Maybe Jean-Louis could also explain what he did and how far he has gotten with his experiments, and what his thoughts are about this challenging problem? ---rony P.S.: This is my personal initiative, no communications with Jean-Louis Faucher, so he will be surprised by this posting, I am sure. Thought after having read his Unicode documents, that he has a lot of experience and efforts in Unicode with C++ and even with experimenting with ooRexx and Unicode, much more than people in this group might think, given that Jean-Louis seems to be quite a humble, decent person. Therefore I would assume that he would be a huge asset and a key success factor for tackling Unicode support for ooRexx! [As Rick has mentioned in the past, it is a hell of a challenge/task to tackle, so the more helping hands, the more Unicode experience to apply, the better!] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
