Re: ICU and Parrot

2002-05-31 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 02:20:15AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: > >2) If not, would a Encode::ICU be wise? > I'm not so sure. But if I were the one to implement Encode::ICU, it > will not be just a compiled collection of UCM files but a wrapper to all > library functions that ICU has to offer. I, f

Re: ICU and Parrot

2002-05-31 Thread Melvin Smith
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:18:55AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: >actually adopted. Useful it may be I found raw ICM too Big and too >Blue :) Whats that mean, too Blue? :) -Melvin

Re: ICU and Parrot

2002-05-31 Thread Dan Kogai
On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 12:34 AM, Autrijus Tang wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:18:55AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: >> As a matter of fact GB18030 is ALREADY supported via Encode::HanExtra >> by >> Autrijus Tang. The only reason GB18030 was not included in Encode main >> is sheer size of t

Re: ICU and Parrot

2002-05-31 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:18:55AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: > As a matter of fact GB18030 is ALREADY supported via Encode::HanExtra by > Autrijus Tang. The only reason GB18030 was not included in Encode main > is sheer size of the map. Yes, partly because it was not implemented algorithmically.

Re: ICU and Parrot

2002-05-30 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:18:55AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: > On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 06:06 AM, George Rhoten wrote: > > Hopefully you take the implicit information in the UCM files and put > > that > > into encode implementation too. For instance, in gb18030 there are > > whole > > ranges o

Re: ICU and Parrot

2002-05-30 Thread Dan Kogai
On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 06:06 AM, George Rhoten wrote: > Hopefully you take the implicit information in the UCM files and put > that > into encode implementation too. For instance, in gb18030 there are > whole > ranges of Unicode mappings that aren't in the UCM file, but they are in > the

Re: ICU and Parrot

2002-05-30 Thread Dan Kogai
It's a good timing to make my first post to this mailing list. On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 09:04 PM, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 17:42, George Rhoten wrote: > >> It is true that parts of ICU uses C++. Some parts of ICU are written >> in C++ >> with a C wrapper. Some other p

Re: ICU and Parrot

2002-05-30 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 17:42, George Rhoten wrote: > It is true that parts of ICU uses C++. Some parts of ICU are written in C++ > with a C wrapper. Some other parts are written in C with a C++ wrapper. It > depends on the API being used. Most of the functionality in the common > library is writt

Re: ICU and Parrot

2002-05-29 Thread George Rhoten
Melvin Smith wrote: > I'm curious, is it possible to carve out an "ICU-lite" in ANSI-C89? It is possible, but it depends on what you want. From what I understand, the ICU common library would cover most of your basic Unicode needs, and most of the effort could be put there. As I recall, the fol

Re: ICU and Parrot

2002-05-28 Thread Melvin Smith
At 02:42 PM 5/28/2002 -0700, George Rhoten wrote: >Hello all, > >Hopefully I won't get too burned by flames by jumping into the middle of >the conversation like this. Fortunately this list is very low on flammable material. :) Thanks for the helpful info. One of the concerns with using an extern