[antlr-interest] Antlrworks BUG? --- Do I note bugs here?

[Edwards, Waverly]

I ran into this accidentally.  I cut some stuff out of a PDF file for
testing and 
though the text looked perfectly fine in the editor I had trouble lexing
some 
characters.  After a bit of head scratching I started guessing the where
the 
lexer would stop were ASCII characters other that looked the same but
were 
different.  I thought maybe I should allow those characters and as I
attempted 
to use them I ran into a brick wall.

Strange how you find some issue.


>> ...may be a disfavor to your users, once they switch to other
systems.


Excellent thought!!


W.

-----Original Message-----
From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org
[mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Luber
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 8:39 AM
Cc: antlr-interest at antlr.org
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Antlrworks BUG? --- Do I note bugs here?

Edwards, Waverly wrote:
>  
> I didn't know those characters were unicode characters.  I thought 
> they were in the upper part of the ascii set.
> 
> Thank you for the response.
> 
> 
> W.
> 
> 
> Oh, how wise is it to allow such characters a synonyms for quote
marks?

I haven't heard from any programming language to allow other quotation
marks than ' and ". To allow those Microsoft replacements may be a
disfavor to your users, once they switch to other systems.

Best regards,
Johannes Luber