Re: [q-lang-users] More Unicode queries.

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Rob Hubbard wrote:
>> No. Are there other languages which offer this?
> 
> Python:
>     \N{name}

Ok, I see. Well, I could probably extract the necessary tables from ICU,
but that would add quite as lot of static string data to the
interpreter. So, before I put this on the TODO list, let me ask whether
anybody really wants/needs this?

> (Originally, I just wondered whether if might be available "for free"
> through a library used to implement Unicode support in Q.)

No, I didn't like the idea to add a huge dependency like ICU to the
interpreter. So I wrote the code for parsing utf8 myself, and other than
that Q only pilfers a few bits from ICU for the character predicates,
and uses libiconv for encoding conversions.

Albert

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