RE: Unicode, was Comment Syntax

On 03 February 2006 04:07, Taral wrote:

On 2/2/06, John Meacham wrote:

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but it currently doesn't recognize any unicode characters as possible operators. which it should, but I am just not sure how to specify that yet until some sort of standard develops. Once there are more unicode compliant compilers out there something will evolve probably.

Character attributes are defined in unicode:

http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/

It's just a matter of mapping. Perhaps this is worth considering amending for Haskell'? The Haskell98 grammar talks about "symbol", "uppercase", "lowercase", while Unicode is a bit more... diverse.

This is already mentioned on the wiki: http://haskell.galois.com/cgi-bin/haskell-prime/trac.cgi/wiki/UnicodeInH askellSource Cheers, Simon