Re: [Taoscript-lang] Tao development progress

[Limin Fu <fu....@gm...>]

Hi!

On 5/18/05, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <ju...@gm...> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> At Tue, 17 May 2005 17:15:04 +0200, Limin Fu wrote:
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> > class ClassInChinese
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> Klasse!
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> I should explain this: 'Klasse' is German for 'class'. As an
> exclamation it means 'Great!' :->
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> Problem: How to describe the character encoding used? Suggestionq an
> initial line using the comment character of most scripting languages
> as the first character reading something like this:
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> # charset=3Dutf-8
> # charset=3Diso2022-cn
> # charset=3Diso8859-15
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> The 'charset=3D' was taken from HTML.


If the encoding for the keyword file and script file are the same, there is=
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no need to specify the charset, the interpreter doesn't care what they=20
encoded, it just compares the bytes directly when necessary.=20

Indeed, it would be nice if it can allow users to specify the charset=20
explicitly, but to do this, it requires a decoder for each charset to map=
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different charsets to a standard charset. So far I don't know how to do it,=
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I don't know if it's possible to use the same decoders used by web-browsers=
.

However, it should be easy for people to use the same charset in the keywor=
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and script files, since all systems and editers have some kind of default=
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charset for themselves. Even if some files happened to have different=20
charset, one can use web brower to open it, and copy&paste in an editor to=
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save in certain charset.

FU Limin