Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin Schreiber wrote: On Monday 24 December 2012 10:23:00 Sven Barth wrote: As I already wrote there are currently no plans to change that FPC supports only ASCII identifiers. I don't think we can trust on that. I hoped that FPC will not use cpstrnew too. So if somebody implements non ASC

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > > too. So if somebody implements non ASCII identifiers because he needs a > > second source Delphi compiler it will be merged because the addition does > > not > > break existing code. I assume utf-8 identifiers would not be very difficult > >

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Martin
On 24/12/2012 12:17, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: too. So if somebody implements non ASCII identifiers because he needs a second source Delphi compiler it will be merged because the addition does not break existing code. I assume utf-8 identifiers wo

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Martin said: > > Hm that makes it easy to have an incomplete list, that could later > become a problem > > half-width spaces etc..., control chars (RTL/LTR...), currently unused > codepoints (that could become anything in future...) Still shorter than what is allowed.

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 24/12/12 11:22, Martin wrote: > > half-width spaces etc..., control chars (RTL/LTR...), currently unused > codepoints (that could become anything in future...) As Marco said, the list will be smaller than the "allowed list". Also the Unicode specification defines blocks or categories for cod

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Martin
On 24/12/2012 13:05, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Martin said: Hm that makes it easy to have an incomplete list, that could later become a problem half-width spaces etc..., control chars (RTL/LTR...), currently unused codepoints (that could become anything in future...) S