August 2003 - Hugs-Users

Hugs source snapshot
by Ross Paterson 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

The most recent Hugs release was in November 2002, and several bug fixes and improvements have been made in the development version since then. I'd like to appeal for testers willing to build and test a snapshot of the sources (Unix only, unfortunately, I don't know how to build on Windows), to help iron out the bugs, hopefully moving towards a release. To try it out, download http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ross/hugs98-Aug2003.tar.gz unpack it, and then cd hugs98-Aug2003/src/unix ./configure cd .. make install This installs in /usr/local -- to install at home, add --prefix=$HOME to the configure line. Please report bugs to hugs-bugs(a)haskell.org

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RE: Unicode support in Hugs - alpha-patch available
by Simon Marlow 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

> How do we implement the conversion functions? The approach recently > added to the CVS version of GHC is to use the native libraries, which > requires the user to set the locale appropriately. More generally, > should these functions be locale-dependent at all? No they shouldn't be locale-dependent, but unfortunately that's what the C library gives us at the moment. wchar_t should ideally represent Unicode, but sadly it doesn't (with glibc) unless you set the locale to something/anything other than "C" or "POSIX". The situation is worse on Solaris: I had to set the locale to en_US.UTF-8 before I got correct results. I haven't tried FreeBSD yet. Windows gives the correct results without having to muck around with locales (but not if you use cygwin). So GHC's solution is patchy at the moment, but I hope the situation will get better in the future as more OSs jump on the wchar_t==Unicode bandwagon. Cheers, Simon

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Unicode support in Hugs - alpha-patch available
by Dimitry Golubovsky 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Hi, Anyone interested in Unicode support in Hugs (what it lacks so far) please check out this URL: http://www.golubovsky.org/software/hugs-patch/article.html I have written a patch for the November 2002 release of Hugs that enables internal handling of Unicode characters by Hugs. The URL above points to the article I wrote to explain the details. The article also contains links to download the patch itself and the demonstration/testing program. Any feedback is welcome. I am especially interested to hear from the core developers of Hugs whether they are intersted to incorporate these changes into the current CVS version and into future releases. PS Hopefully this livens up the traffic on the list - for several months there have been too few messages. -- Dmitry M. Golubovsky South Lyon, MI

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Re: Your message to Hugs-Users awaits moderator approval
by John Peterson 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

I just changed the lists to member only posting to get rid of all the virus junk. I'll probably change it back in a while once we get spam/virus blocking reworked at haskell.org. In the meanwhile, you may have posts held if your current email address doesn't exactly match the subscribed address. I whitelist email addresses when I approve a posting so this will happen just once. Sorry for any hassle but hugs-bugs and hugs-users will now be completely spam/virus free. John

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RE: Unicode support in Hugs - alpha-patch available
by Richard A. O'Keefe 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

| Anyone interested in Unicode support in Hugs (what it lacks so far) | please check out this URL: | | http://www.golubovsky.org/software/hugs-patch/article.html There was a serious error in that page, which I can no longer reach. The number of defined characters in Unicode was grossly underestimated, because the number of *lines* in the Unicode database was counted, instead of the number of *characters*. Here's a summary of UnicodeData.txt as it stood in January 2001. 6582 <CJK Ideograph Extension A> 20902 <CJK Ideograph> 11172 <Hangul Syllable> 896 <Non Private Use High Surrogate> 128 <Private Use High Surrogate> 1024 <Low Surrogate> 6400 <Private Use> 65534 <Plane 15 Private Use> 65534 <Plane 16 Private Use> 10603 singletons 10621 records, all told. The number of *lines* is 10,621; the number of *characters* (excluding surrogates and private use areas) is 49,259. Since then, Unicode has got a lot bigger. The current version of Unicode is 4.0.0. According to http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ it has 96,248{%} graphic characters plus 265 format, control, and "noncharacter" characters (not counting private use, surrogate, and reserved codes). This is a _lot_ more than the www.golubovsky.org article envisaged. {%} Yes, this does mean that "Unicode is 16 bits" is dead. That idea has been dead for quite some time now, although the rotting corpse "lives" on in Java.

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Returned mail: see transcript for details
by Mail Delivery Subsystem 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

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Business proposal
by princekenneth＠caramail.com 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

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BANNED FILENAME (wicked_scr.scr) IN YOUR MAIL
by amavisd-new 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

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Please confirm your request to join anu11
by Yahoo!Groups 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

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Urgent business assistance
by Ola Abiola 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Monsieur/Madam, Tout d�abord, je voudrais solliciter votre ultime confidence pour cette proposition. C�est par la vertu de la nature de la transaction qu�il est n�cessaire d��tre confidentiel et plus discret. J�ai obtenu votre adresse dans l�annuaire de votre pays . Je suis Mr. Ola ABIOLA, le fils du chef BASHORUN MKO ABIOLA qui �tait mort en d�tention politique le 7 juillet 1998. Mon p�re avait contest� l��lection pr�sidentielle au Nigeria du 12 juin 1993 qu�il avait gagn� mais annul�e. Il �tait emp�ch� du fauteuil pr�sidentiel par l�ancienne association du nord dans le pays connue populairement comme<<KADUNA MAFIA>>. Cette assoc iation regroupe les anciens chefs d�Etats militaire et la derni�re junte militaire G�n�ral SANI ABACHA qui est mort le 8 juin 1998. Ils ont jur� de ne pas abdiquer le fauteuil pr�sidentiel � un sudiste, revendiquant que le fauteuil est pour les natifs du nord. Pour se d�barrasser de mon p�re, ils raisonnaient que mon p�re avait d�pens� de l�argent pour gagner le mandat du public, d�o� l�annulation de l��lection . La situation s�est empyr�e la veille du 12 juin, Ier anniversaire(11 juin 1994) lorsque mon p�re s�est d�clar� pr�sident de la R�publique F�d�rale du Nigeria. Pour cette raison, la junte d�clare que mon p�re est recherch�. Il fut arr�t � et il n��tait pas ni jug� ni lib�r� jusqu�� sa mort. En outre, ma m�re ALHADJA KUDIRAT ABIOLA qui luttait pour la lib�ration de mon p�re fut assassin� par des inconnus arm�s le 4 juin 1996. Il faut noter qu�avant la mort de ma m�re, elle avait d�pos�e une somme de 35.300.000 US$(trente cinq million trois c ent mille) de dollars Am�ricains aupr�s d�une compagnie de s�curit� et ceci appartenait � mon p�re. Mon p�re �tait un polygame et depuis sa mort il y a des probl�mes � cause du partage de sa richesse et mes fr�res(de m�re diff�rente) faisaient tout pour s�asseoir sur les biens de mon p�re, d�o� ma d�cision de transf�rer ce fonds � un �tranger qui m�aidera pour son investissement dans une affaire lucrative � mon profit et � celui de mon petit fr�re, comme de m�me p�re et de m�me m�re et qui arrangera au ssi ma r�sidence dans son pays. Notez bien que ma famille n�est pas au courant de cette transaction, c�est uniquement vous et la compagnie de s�curit� et assurez-vous que cette transaction ne sera jamais sue par ma grande famille et les gens du Nigeria. J�ai d�cid� d�ex�cuter cette aff aire ici � Lom�-Togo d�o� ma r�sidence temporaire, pour des raisons de s�curit�s. Soyez inform� que toutes les modalit�s n�cessaire pour le transfert de ce fonds ont �t� parfaites et la transaction est � 100% de hors risque. D�ailleurs, les militaires sont rentr�s dans les casernes et le Nigeria a maintenant un gouvernement d�mocratiq ue. Vous �tes libres de m�informer dans votre r�ponse � cette lettre votre commission en pourcentage sur le montant total pour votre assistance. Notez tout de m�me que les 5% de la somme totale reste pour les d�penses pouvant �tre contract�es pour le pro cessus de la transaction. Contactez- moi et je vous donnerez l�image compl�te de ce projet. Dans l�attente de votre r�ponse rapide, veuillez agr�er l�__expression de mes sentiments les plus sincers. Ola ABIOLA

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