Re: Wide character support enabling

On Friday 17 February 2006 09:59 am, Raymond Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to compile Lush with wide character support so that unicode can be used 
> in conjunction with locales, but I don't see where to do this. 'configure' makes no 
> mention of an option for this. Where to start?

You'd have to rewrite the string functions to work properly.
Most are in src/string.c, and some compiled versions in lsh/compiler/dh-macros.lsh.
I already made a few changes to properly display multibyte characters in strings.
Search for 'HAVE_WCHAR_T' in the file src/string.c.

But then I encountered backward compatibility problems 
because some programs use strings as containers for arrays of bytes.
I had to backtrack (see str_chr and str_asc) 

See also functions {explode,implode}-{bytes,char}

- L.


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