[re2c-general] Re: re2c; Made rude unicode support

[Dan N. <da...@nu...>]

Thomas Rask Thomsen wrote:
> Hi Dan
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> We recently did a quick hack of re2c-0.9.7 in order to make it 16 bit 
> enabled (Unicode). Unfortunately, we had to disable some of the nice 
> stuff currently available in re2c in order to do so. We have noticed 
> that re2c is in the public domain, but would like to know if you believe 
> our rather rude changes will be of value to the open source community.
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Yes, there have been other people who want unicode support. I assume you 
aren't willing to invest the time to make your "rude changes" integrate 
well with re2c, so if you are willing to make your changes available, I 
think the best way to proceed would be for you to create a patch and 
upload it to the sourceforge patch manager. Then we can evaluate the 
best way to proceed, maybe someone with the desire and time can use the 
patch as a starting point to integrate cleanly with the rest of the 
code, or if someone really wants unicode support, they can just apply 
the patch and accept the limitations.

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> By the way, we are very impressed with re2c and we hope to be able to 
> accelerate our software significantly in the future by using it.
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I like it as well ;-)

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Dan