Re: gcl-2.7.0 and unicode

Camm Maguire <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general,gmane.lisp.gcl.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Greetings!

Some time ago I put in the gobble-whitespace function for gcl (commit
da00ca3cf) to work around test failures linked to unicode whitespace.
Workign fine AFAICT.

Take care,


Robert Dodier <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 7:59 AM Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Can you give me an example of something important
>> which cannot be made to work with existing gcl characters, as say maxima
>> has?
>
> There isn't any feature in Maxima which requires Unicode, so unless
> I'm forgetting something, the answer is no, there isn't. I am working
> on making use of Unicode characters in the pretty printer, however,
> that will be optional, and disabled if the Lisp implementation doesn't
> support Unicode.
>
> If I am not mistaken, at present there aren't any Lisp or Maxima files
> which contain Unicode characters, except maybe for testing Unicode
> support. I seem to recall there were a few instances of Unicode quotes
> or hyphens, but those weren't required, and were replaced by
> equivalent ASCII characters, if I remember correctly.
>
> Users, of course, might introduce Unicode characters in symbols,
> strings, or comments -- I wouldn't want to try to prevent that.
>
> best
>
> Robert
>
>
>

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