[mercury-users] Re: [m-dev.] Character type class

Michael Day mcda at students.cs.mu.oz.au
Mon Jan 31 14:07:48 AEDT 2000


> In practical terms, Unicode supports all the major language groups.
> FWIT, Unicode is *not* adequate for one of our clients - they want
> to make sgml/xml databases of ancient documents including the ancient
> Japanese script, Sanscrit, etc, etc, *none* of which are supported
> by Unicode.

So support for character types such as UNICODE would be great, but it must
be relatively straightforward for the user to implement their own instance
of the character type class and take advantage of the existing character
operations...

Michael
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