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Re: Character set discussion
Original-Via: uk.ac.nsf; Fri, 15 Mar 91 03:45:52 GMT
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 11:06:36+0900
From: takeichi (Takeichi) <takeichi%takeichi.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu>
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To: haskell <haskell%edu.yale.cs@jpnkyoto.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: Character set discussion
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>| I don't think it's time for ISO 10646 in Haskell yet. Just allow
>| 8 bit characters and that will solve a lot.
>|
>| -- Lennart Augustsson
>Agreed. Besides, Unicode is a competing standard, isn't it?
>Maybe we should wait for the dust to settle, perhaps for
>Haskell 2. (Brooks :-)
>
>--Joe
I agree to it. We use 16(=8+8)bits for Japanese Kanji/Kana characters,
and keep 7 bit alphanumerics as in other countries. There are several
conventions in use to encode Japanese characters by 16 bits. But it is
generally agreed that MSB (i.e., 8-th bit) of each 8 bit character should
be used for escaping from alphanumerics and identifying Japanese
characters. We are happy for the moment if Haskell allows 8 bit characters.
Masato Takeichi
University of Tokyo