Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-07-05 Thread Dale King
Tim Roberts wrote: Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Languages with Full Unicode Support As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode. (the JavaScript engine used by FireFox support

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-07-05 Thread Tim Roberts
Dale King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Roberts wrote: Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Languages with Full Unicode Support As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode. (the JavaScript engine

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-07-04 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Oliver Bandel schrieb: Matthias Blume wrote: Tin Gherdanarra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oliver Bandel wrote: こんいちわ Xah-Lee san ;-) Uhm, I'd guess that Xah is Chinese. Be careful with such things in real life; Koreans might beat you up for this. Stay alive! And the Japanese might

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-07-04 Thread Pascal Bourguignon
Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oliver Bandel schrieb: Matthias Blume wrote: Tin Gherdanarra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oliver Bandel wrote: こんいちわ Xah-Lee san ;-) Uhm, I'd guess that Xah is Chinese. Be careful with such things in real life; Koreans might beat you up for

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-07-04 Thread Mumia W.
Pascal Bourguignon wrote: [...] (coerce (lschar :name LATIN) 'string) -- ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóô [...] In what programming language/interpreter is this code? --

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-07-02 Thread Oliver Bandel
Matthias Blume wrote: Tin Gherdanarra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oliver Bandel wrote: こんいちわ Xah-Lee san ;-) Uhm, I'd guess that Xah is Chinese. Be careful with such things in real life; Koreans might beat you up for this. Stay alive! And the Japanese might beat him up, too. For

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-07-02 Thread Matthias Blume
Oliver Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oliver Bandel wrote: こんいちわ Xah-Lee san ;-) Uhm, I'd guess that Xah is Chinese. Be careful with such things in real life; Koreans might beat you up for this. Stay alive! And the Japanese might beat him up, too. For butchering their language. :-) OK,

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-07-01 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Chris Uppal schrieb: Joachim Durchholz wrote: This is implementation-defined in C. A compiler is allowed to accept variable names with alphabetic Unicode characters outside of ASCII. Hmm... that could would be nonportable, so C support for Unicode is half-baked at best. Since the

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-07-01 Thread Dr.Ruud
Chris Uppal schreef: Since the interpretation of characters which are yet to be added to Unicode is undefined (will they be digits, letters, operators, symbol, punctuation ?), there doesn't seem to be any sane way that a language could allow an unrestricted choice of Unicode in

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-07-01 Thread David Hopwood
Joachim Durchholz wrote: Chris Uppal schrieb: Joachim Durchholz wrote: This is implementation-defined in C. A compiler is allowed to accept variable names with alphabetic Unicode characters outside of ASCII. Hmm... that could would be nonportable, so C support for Unicode is half-baked at

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-28 Thread Tim Roberts
Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Languages with Full Unicode Support As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode. (the JavaScript engine used by FireFox support this) As far as i know, here's few

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-28 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Tim Roberts schrieb: Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C ? No. This is implementation-defined in C. A compiler is allowed to accept variable names with alphabetic Unicode characters outside of ASCII. Hmm... that could would be nonportable, so C support for Unicode is half-baked at best.

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-28 Thread David Hopwood
Tim Roberts wrote: Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Languages with Full Unicode Support As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode. (the JavaScript engine used by FireFox support this) As far

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-28 Thread Chris Uppal
Joachim Durchholz wrote: This is implementation-defined in C. A compiler is allowed to accept variable names with alphabetic Unicode characters outside of ASCII. Hmm... that could would be nonportable, so C support for Unicode is half-baked at best. Since the interpretation of characters

Java identifiers (was: languages with full unicode support)

2006-06-28 Thread David Hopwood
Note Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Chris Uppal wrote: Since the interpretation of characters which are yet to be added to Unicode is undefined (will they be digits, letters, operators, symbol, punctuation ?), there doesn't seem to be any sane way that a language could allow an

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-27 Thread Tin Gherdanarra
Oliver Bandel wrote: こんいちわ Xah-Lee san ;-) Uhm, I'd guess that Xah is Chinese. Be careful with such things in real life; Koreans might beat you up for this. Stay alive! Xah Lee wrote: Languages with Full Unicode Support As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-27 Thread Matthias Blume
Tin Gherdanarra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oliver Bandel wrote: こんいちわ Xah-Lee san ;-) Uhm, I'd guess that Xah is Chinese. Be careful with such things in real life; Koreans might beat you up for this. Stay alive! And the Japanese might beat him up, too. For butchering their language. :-) --

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-26 Thread Oliver Wong
Oliver Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xah Lee wrote: As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode. Can you explain what you mena with the names here

languages with full unicode support

2006-06-25 Thread Xah Lee
Languages with Full Unicode Support As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode. (the JavaScript engine used by FireFox support this) As far as i know, here's few other lang's status: C

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-25 Thread Frank Buss
Xah Lee wrote: Lisps → No. The Common Lisp spec (CLHS) doesn't require that implementations support Unicode characters, but it doesn't forbid it and some implementations support it, e.g. http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html -- Frank Buss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.frank-buss.de,

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-25 Thread Mumia W.
Xah Lee wrote: Languages with Full Unicode Support As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode. (the JavaScript engine used by FireFox support this) As far as i know, here's few other lang's

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-25 Thread Darren New
Xah Lee wrote: If you know a lang that does full unicode support, please let me know. Tcl. You may have to modify the source command to get it to default to something other than the system encoding, but this is trivial in Tcl. -- Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST) Native Americans

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-25 Thread Oliver Bandel
こんいちわ Xah-Lee san ;-) Xah Lee wrote: Languages with Full Unicode Support As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode. Can you explain what you mena with the names here? (the JavaScript

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-25 Thread OMouse
As far as i know, here's few other lang's status: C → No. I think C has the wchar type to handle larger values. And C++ has std::wstring. So really, the support is there. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#c I think the problem is that most C/C++ coders don't care about unicode