Kim,
Everyone on our list should hear about our brother language Object Icon if
they haven't already. It may be just the ticket for folks who need Unicode
support in an Icon dialect, I don't know. If it meets your needs that is
outstanding news.
At present, my relationship with Unicon star citizen Robert Parlett is: I
worship the ground he walks on, and he won't talk to me. He is literally
one of the finest programmers I have ever seen, and I have seen some good
ones. Out of respect, I have not borrowed any code or ideas from Object
Icon even though it is open source. If Robert wanted Unicon to have
Unicode support, he would contribute it or bless such cross fertilization.
I can only speculate, but I think Robert wanted to have freedom and control
to change everything about Icon and make it how he wanted it, and for
Unicon I was holding him back by insisting, as Ralph Griswold did, on 99+%
backward compatibility. Robert has done great things for Unicon, and I am
sure he has done great things in Object Icon. I regret that we are not at
present doing great things together, but he's gotta do what's right for
him. I encourage you to check out Object Icon further. For Unicon, our
primary attentions lately have been on concurrency and 3D and networking
improvements, but we are at a point now where new directions are sought, so
Unicode is a great suggestion and I hope we get some others.
Cheers,
Clint
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