It seems to me that the unicode world is full of "ah but in North Icelandic Yiddish aleph is considered to be an infinitely composite character" and other such arcane exceptions that make the inexperienced the natural victims of their own rational assumptions.
Also, given the icu-not-building problem (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg17477.html) maybe what we need is an icu person per platform. This might have the benefit of making the task seem less onerous.
I did manage to get it building on OS X (still does, I just checked). I wonder on what systems is it actually failing?
I'll include this wiki page again because it contains a few links that unicode-savvy lurkers might find useful.
http://www.vendian.org/parrot/wiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/ ParrotDistributionUnicodeSupport
Mike
On 15 Jan 2004, at 21:09, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Now, assuming there's still anyone left reading this message...
We've been threatening to build ICU into parrot, and it's time for that to start happening. Unfortunately there's a problem--it doesn't work right now. So, what we need is some brave soul to track ICU development and keep us reasonably up to date. What I'd really like is:
1) ICU building and working 2) ICU not needing any C++
I'd also like a pony, too, so I can live if we don't get #2, at least for a bit (as it means that we now require a C++ compiler to build parrot).
Anyone care to volunteer? -- Dan
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