Re: [Kidbasic-devel] Join

[james r. <ji...@re...>]

Ian,

That was my thought, too.  I was going to email you to see if we could
change all the char* stuff in the stack and interpreter to QStrings?

Looking forward to your commit.

Jim

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Ian Larsen <dr...@gm...> wrote:

> All,
>
> I was wrong about Flex; it handles Utf8 just fine.  The problem was
> with the way QStrings were being converted.  I have a working version
> that I'm going to test some more and commit tomorrow.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Ian Larsen <dr...@gm...> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I believe the reason you're seeing the question marks in the output is
> > because Gnu Flex and Bison, which the basic256 parser is written in,
> > doesn't support Unicode at all.
> >
> > There are no simple fixes for this, unfortunately.  Here are some
> possibilities:
> >
> > 1) Encode ALL strings in a program's source code using base64 and then
> > decode them prior to pushing them onto the operand stack.  This is an
> > ugly hack, but right now would be the path of least resistance.
> > 2) Find a drop-in replacement for Flex and Bison that supports Unicode
> > 3) Write a custom parser that supports Unicode.  This would be a *lot*
> > of work, but would be a lot of fun for someone interested in learning
> > compiler design.
> >
> > If anyone has any other ideas, please let me know.
> >
> > -Ian
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:06 AM,  <web...@bi...> wrote:
> >> Ian,
> >>
> >> I am very glad that you have returned to the development BASIC256! I
> >> would just tell you about a serious problem that exists for users who
> >> use the Russian language. Attached - screenshot.
> >>
> >> I made a patch for version 0.9.5 which was published 12/2009 for the
> >> distribution of ALT Linux. Of course, this patch is not urgent, since
> >> you have done a lot of changes. Can I ask you to make necessary
> >> changes (because I have little experience) or the provision of
> >> Russian-speaking users - only my problem? :-)
> >>
> >>> On this list about two weeks ago we got a french translation if anyone
> >>> would like to add that in. If not, I'll get around to it eventually.
> >>
> >> I have a little more experience, so it's better if you did.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Blessing,
> >> Sergei Irupin
> >> http://rnd-lug.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
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>
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