[m-users.] Unicode via glib

[Volker Wysk]

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? 

Volker