[m-users.] Unicode via glib

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019, Volker Wysk wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 17.10.2019, 00:28 +1100 schrieb Julien Fischer:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2019, Volker Wysk wrote:
>>
>>> Has it occured to Mercury folks to use the glib library for unicode
>>> support?
>>
>> Well, not specifically glib.  ICU or GNU libunistring would probably
>> be
>> more appropriate since they don't have all the other stuff that glib
>> has.
>>
>> As far as the standard library goes, I would not want to add a
>> dependency
>> on an external library.  (I would have no objection to including such
>> an
>> interface as part of extras distribution.)
>
> What about stealing the unicode parts from glib and including them in
> the Mercury standard library?

Glib is not licensed under the same terms as the Mercury standard library.

Julien.