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

[Thomas R. T. <tr...@sp...>]

We didn't find a simple way to support the EBCDIC stuff. Further, for
some reason the use of bit vectors failed in test, so we disabled them
as well. We added a -w option to enable the Unicode processing as to
keep backward compatibility with 8-bit use (the stuff mentioned above
still disabled though).

I will investigate what can be done about generating a patch. Thank you
for the quick feedback.


Thomas

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Nuffer [mailto:da...@nu...]=20
Sent: 28. september 2005 22:41
To: Thomas Rask Thomsen
Cc: re2...@li...
Subject: Re: re2c; Made rude unicode support

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=20
> enabled (Unicode). Unfortunately, we had to disable some of the nice=20
> stuff currently available in re2c in order to do so. We have noticed=20
> that re2c is in the public domain, but would like to know if you
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> 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=20
well with re2c, so if you are willing to make your changes available, I=20
think the best way to proceed would be for you to create a patch and=20
upload it to the sourceforge patch manager. Then we can evaluate the=20
best way to proceed, maybe someone with the desire and time can use the=20
patch as a starting point to integrate cleanly with the rest of the=20
code, or if someone really wants unicode support, they can just apply=20
the patch and accept the limitations.