[mercury-users] Mercury programmer required ;-)

[Tyson Dowd]

On 25-Sep-1998, Warwick HARVEY <warwick at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Peter Schachte writes:
> > I still think doing maths on the character codes is the easiest,
> > fastest, and clearest solution, though.
> 
> ... and relies on an ASCII character set.
> 
> Probably not that big a deal, really (I don't think I've ever used a
> computer which wasn't ASCII-based), but character set independence was one
> of the features Fergus was trying to keep.

Does anyone know whether the same ASCII conversions will work in
multi-byte character sets?  (e.g. Unicode and other things?)

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