Fwd: [antlr-interest] ANTLR, C++ and UNICODE

[Ric Klaren]

Can people stop posting to the yahoogroups thing !? Although it's
already pretty stupid of yahoo that for some it seems to work and for
me the reply bounces....

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ric Klaren <ric.klaren at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:46:48 +0100
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] ANTLR, C++ and UNICODE
To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:37:33 -0800 (PST), Peggy Fieland
<madcapmaggie at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What is the state of UNICODE support for ANTLR C++
> mode?  I need to support UNICODE input.  Is there a
> patch I can apply?

2.7.5 prereleases contain an example that adds some unicode support.
It basically shows a CharScanner subclass that can deal with UTF8 on
the input side, it's more a proof of concept than production code. I
guess that if the codegen changes are sufficient one could turn it
into something usable in production environment.

I requested feedback for it a while back with a snapshot release.
Since no feedback ever came on the subject of the unicode I did not do
anything further with it (I myself have no real stuff to test unicode
with, so I need some community involvement to help testing/fleshing it
out to something usable)

Since we're in the 2.7.5 prerelease track and 2.7.5 will go out any
moment the last configure/makefile tweaks are done, 2.7.5 will
probably not see good unicode support. 2.7.6 might if people provide
feedback.

Cheers,

Ric