You too can direct the Attack of the Unicode Monster!

[Dan Sugalski]

WHich ought ot be some sort of really bad '50s era black and white giant
atomic monster movie. But anyway.

ICU now configures and builds on at least some platforms. That means it's
time to build an encoding and chartype library for it. This'd be a nice
little project for someone looking to get their feet wet in the parrot
source, so...

Takers?

Dan

[Jeff Clites]

I've been poking at it a little bit--nothing finished yet, but I've
been making some headway.

JEff

[Michael Scott]

I have been looking at the string stuff and icu with this in mind.

I would have mentioned it earlier, except that the closer I get to the
monster the less equipped I seem. At the moment the only weapon I
possess is time.

Also, I'm working on OS X, so there is the library loading issue to be
solved too.

Mike

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> Takers?
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> Dan
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[Robert Spier]

> Also, I'm working on OS X, so there is the library loading issue to be
> solved too.

10.3 should make this easier, as it has dlopen emulation. (While not
necessarily the perfect long-term solution, it at least lets you get
things done.)

-R

[Dan Sugalski]

I've got about half that actually done--it's not too tough, but it's
annoying, and unfortunately I've just not had the time with the iBook to
get it done. (And we're going to need it as it'll be quite a while before
everyone's moved to 10.3) Fink's dlopen also does this but, again, we're
trying not to count on that either.

Dan