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Title: Does HLA support UNICODE?
Post by: hide2may on August 24, 2008, 05:13:11 PM
Hi, Does any kind soul know if Prof Hyde is working on HLA standard library routines to support UNICODE?

-hide2may  :dazzled:
Title: Re: Does HLA support UNICODE?
Post by: Randall Hyde on August 25, 2008, 11:15:48 PM
Quote from: hide2may on August 24, 2008, 05:13:11 PM
Hi, Does any kind soul know if Prof Hyde is working on HLA standard library routines to support UNICODE?

-hide2may  :dazzled:

Someday :-(

HLA, itself, supports UNICODE. But there are no library routines that work with UNICODE.
Of course, if you use UTF-8 then *some* of the functions will behave properly, but I won't vouch for which are good and which are not at this point.

A UNICODE string library would be a good addition. However, l know what my schedule is like for the next year or two and I can assure you that I won't be working on such a library. However, all the source code is on Source Forge, so I strongly encourage anyone who is interested in such a library to start adding functions to the Source Forge respository.

I'm currently working on a thread-safe version of the stdlib; that's consuming a lot of my time these days.
Well, that and real work.
hLater,
Randy Hyde