[m-rev.] for review: add some unicode support to Mercury

[Julien Fischer]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Michael Day wrote:

>
> > Perhaps it should be a `unicode' module (so it could be extended to
> > support encodings besides utf-8)?
>
> On a completely unrelated note, since the standard library will continue
> to expand, perhaps it would be worth introducing a std namespace, so that
> the module would be called std.unicode? Then it will not clash with the
> unicode module we use in Prince :)

The eventual intention is to put the standard library in a namespace
called std.  I think there was a reason that we haven't done that yet
but I don't remember what it was.

Julien.
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