[Ecls-list] ECL gaining Unicode support [CC from News]

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

Until now, ECL accepted strings made of extended characters, with
codes up to 21 bits. This feature was accessible when built with
--enable-unicode, but it wasn't really useful because these strings
could not be written or read from files.

As part of the effort to make ECL safer with respect to threads and
interrupts, we had to change the way C streams are implemented. It
didn't seem that much implementing different input-output formats.

And indeed it was not. The change involves right now fixes in the code
for handling readtables, the code for printing symbols and other
places, and it is probably incomplete. Nevertheless, as the screenshot
shows https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=30035
it seems to work :-)

I will now work on the other reported problems.

Juanjo

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