On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 7:59 AM Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> wrote:
> Can you give me an example of something important > which cannot be made to work with existing gcl characters, as say maxima > has? There isn't any feature in Maxima which requires Unicode, so unless I'm forgetting something, the answer is no, there isn't. I am working on making use of Unicode characters in the pretty printer, however, that will be optional, and disabled if the Lisp implementation doesn't support Unicode. If I am not mistaken, at present there aren't any Lisp or Maxima files which contain Unicode characters, except maybe for testing Unicode support. I seem to recall there were a few instances of Unicode quotes or hyphens, but those weren't required, and were replaced by equivalent ASCII characters, if I remember correctly. Users, of course, might introduce Unicode characters in symbols, strings, or comments -- I wouldn't want to try to prevent that. best Robert
