[LLVMdev] LLVM supports Unicode?

[geovanisouza92 at gmail.com]

Okay, this help so much!

Now, I'm see more clear about what I can do with LLVM.

Thanks very much, Jo and Reid!

Comming soon, I will post about my project, if you want know... ;)




2011/8/28 Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org>

> Am 28.08.2011 20:02, schrieb geovanisouza92 at gmail.com:
> > 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.
>
> As Reid said, this probably isn't the right list to ask questions about
> the runtime system.
> Still, it's marginally relevant, and I happen to have done a bit with
> Unicode lately, so here goes:
>
> In that case, you have a multitude of design and implementation choices.
> You won't be able to properly explore these until you have done some
> more reading.
>
> I'd suggest reading the Unicode standard, available for free at
> http://unicode.org. You'll have to read the material there more than
> once, I fear; at least I had to before I was able to roughly determine
> which parts of the standard were relevant for what I wanted to do.
> For starters, you'll want to know about the various encodings (UTF-8 and
> UTF-16 are the most relevant ones), and about surrogate pairs. With that
> in mind, you can start thinking about writing (or using) a library.
>
> For practical usage, I have been sticking with the ICU library.
> (Be warned that you still need to know a good deal about Unicode before
> you can properly determine what options of ICU actually do what you want.)
>
> Hope this helps, and good luck!
> Regards,
> Jo
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