languages with full unicode support
Dale King
DaleWKing at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 14:00:07 EDT 2006
Tim Roberts wrote:
> "Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> wrote:
>
>> Languages with Full Unicode Support
>>
>> As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete
>> unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode.
>> (the JavaScript engine used by FireFox support this)
>>
>> As far as i know, here's few other lang's status:
>>
>> C ? No.
>
> This is implementation-defined in C. A compiler is allowed to accept
> variable names with alphabetic Unicode characters outside of ASCII.
I don't think it is implementation defined. I believe it is actually
required by the spec. The trouble is that so few compilers actually
comply with the spec. A few years ago I asked for someone to actually
point to a fully compliant compiler and no one could.
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Dale King
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