From: "Hongzheng Wang" <wanghz@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] About The Codes Beyond Unicode-BMP
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:02:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b954b2060803130802ob2c3882u3539bb87c9266eb3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b615db319cecd764c8e0946fdc806c79@coraid.com>
I see. Thanks.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:55 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> plan 9 supports utf16. that is codpoints u+0000 — u+fffff. there is no
> support for 32bit characters. to support larger characters, the starting point
> would be changing Rune from ushort to ulong and changing constants like
> UTFmax and fixing chartorune and runetochar. (and finding all the places
> that assume that UTFmax really is 3.)
>
> it's all very doable, but it would be a very invasive change.
>
> - erik
>
>
--
HZ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-13 14:28 Hongzheng Wang
2008-03-13 14:55 ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-13 15:02 ` Hongzheng Wang [this message]
2008-03-13 18:23 ` Russ Cox
2008-03-13 18:38 ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-13 18:44 ` Joel C. Salomon
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