Greetings! Some time ago I put in the gobble-whitespace function for gcl (commit da00ca3cf) to work around test failures linked to unicode whitespace. Workign fine AFAICT.
Take care, Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 > > > -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
