about unicode viewer

[Jun HAN]

I found one in the web
http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/

However, if we want to visualize unicode in scalation, some additional
support must be taken into consideration.
(1) For browser, svg format must be supported.
"As of 2010, all major desktop browsers, and many minor ones, have
some level of SVG support, except for Internet Explorer. Other
browsers' implementations are not yet complete;" (from wiki)
(2) For desktop application, unicode font needs to be installed, e.g.,
BabelPad for Windows.
(3) Eclipse may support unicode, but how to integrate scalation within
Eclipse?


Another step would be to narrow down to a specific area and try to
work on a small subset of unicode since Unicode includes huge
characters.

These are just my two cents.

[phattangent]

As per Dr. Miller's suggestion, I've been emailing people on the scala-
user list to see if anyone else is interested in the use of Unicode in
implementing DSL's in Scala.

SVG: Why do we need to support SVG for viewing the language? Maybe I'm
thinking about it differently... Shouldn't the Unicode characters and
their usage be clearly visible in the source files? Or, were you
thinking we should take the same approach as, for example, Maple?

FONTS: We should probably focus on implementing methods and operations
using some of the math symbols in Unicode first. These characters are
more likely to be included in standard fonts.

ECLIPSE: To answer your question about Eclipse, I think we can extend
it's functionality with a plugin. However, we would need to discuss
how to approach it. For example, should we extend its Code Assist
functionality, add a toolbar, or both? Would it need to be ScalaTion
specific or should we be more generic? Just some things to consider.