Re: 64-bit extensions

[Tim Teulings <tim@edge.ping.de>]

Hallo!

> But: All support OOC could give is a new data type, conversion
> functions between standard CHAR and this type, and a set of library
> modules like Strings & friends.  But no Unicode IO.  I doubt that
> anyone would gain something with these changes.

This is enough and would make it possible to write a number of modules
parallel to the existing ones for CHAR. And it would allow to interface to
a OS which supports Unicode, too. However it seems like there is Unicode
(16 bit), UCS (31bit), utf-8 (pack in 8bits portions) etc... One has to
look which is most common on the difernets OSs and which is covered by
f.e. posix, C language definition to do the implementation of UNICHAR,
HUGECHAR or whatever its name will be right from the beginning.

-- 
Gru...
       Tim.