Unicode, was Comment Syntax

[Simon Marlow]

On 03 February 2006 04:07, Taral wrote:

> On 2/2/06, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
>> but it currently doesn't recognize any unicode characters as possible
>> operators. which it should, but I am just not sure how to specify
>> that yet until some sort of standard develops. Once there are more
>> unicode compliant compilers out there something will evolve probably.
> 
> Character attributes are defined in unicode:
> 
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/
> 
> It's just a matter of mapping. Perhaps this is worth considering
> amending for Haskell'? The Haskell98 grammar talks about "symbol",
> "uppercase", "lowercase", while Unicode is a bit more... diverse.

This is already mentioned on the wiki:

http://haskell.galois.com/cgi-bin/haskell-prime/trac.cgi/wiki/UnicodeInH
askellSource

Cheers,
	Simon