[LLVMdev] LLVM supports Unicode?

[Reid Kleckner]

LLVM cannot solve these problems for you, it's only a compiler
framework.  Asking if LLVM can help you support Unicode in your
language is like asking if x86 machine code can help you support
Unicode.  You can use both to generate code that handles Unicode
correctly, but it's up to you to generate that code.

Reid

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:02 PM, geovanisouza92 at gmail.com
<geovanisouza92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Jo!
> I'm trying create a new programming language, and I want that it have
> Unicode support (support for read and manipulate rightly the source-code and
> string literals).
> But, in addition, my programming language supports "string interpolation"
> string, and in these interpolations, tiny snippets of code, like
> expressions, or variable names.
> So, I need read each char, separating the interpolations.
> However, if you have another sugestion, I will stay grateful in listen you.
>
> []'s
>
>
> 2011/8/28 Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org>
>>
>> Am 28.08.2011 16:02, schrieb geovanisouza92 at gmail.com:
>> > Well, have you any idea about how I can implement rightly Unicode in
>> > C/C++?
>>
>> What do you mean with "implement in C/C++"?
>>
>> If you mean adding libraries to C/C++ that correctly deal with Unicode:
>> that's nothing you do with a compiler infrastructure. And probably
>> duplicate work, since Unicode libraries already exist.
>>
>> If you mean making the C/C++ compiler understand Unicode string
>> literals: either that's in the language standard and implemented by
>> conformant compilers already, or it's not in the language standard,
>> implementing it would deviate from the standard, and it would not be
>> "rightly" implemented. (I'm not a C/C++ guy so I don't know whether it's
>> actually in the standard, but if it isn't, I guess any compiler has
>> extensions already.)
>>
>> Hm.
>>
>> Maybe we're talking at the wrong level here, so:
>> What's the problem/need that you wish to address?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jo
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