Re: Flex & Unicode

Frans Englich <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:38:58 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lex.flex.general
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On Thursday 22 September 2005 17:01, Hans Aberg wrote:
> On 22 Sep 2005, at 16:42, Frans Englich wrote:
> > I need a unicode-compatible Flex, and from visiting Google &
> > reading the
> > manual I understand that Flex doesn't have that out of the box, but
> > one have
> > to apply The unicode patch.
>
> What you call the "Unicode patch" I think is merely a patch that
> redefines tables from being 8-bit to 16-bit. Unicode now exceeds that
> number. So it is dead.

Ok. It looks like people nevertheless keep it alive for some reason, this 
one's against 2.5.4a:
http://software.decisionsoft.com/software/flex-2.5.4a-unicode-patch

I played around with converting to local 8 bit encoding and that fixed it.

Thanks,

		Frans