On Unicode

[Tamas Papp]

I've been wondering if there would be an easy way for Unicode
implementations. I came up with the following idea.

Unicode contains all the characters in standard ASCII, so one could use
those as normal ASCII characters, for example, @End with @,E,n,d would be
encoded with the two-byte unicode numbers, according to the unicode
standard, just that it would take up 8 bytes instead of 4. Lout could read
the file by words instead of bytes, and handle everything accordingly.

An editor handling unicode could be used to write source files, I think
that there are some editors like that. It would solve the problem of
character sets for good, and there would be no need to use them.

I'm not a programmer so I don't know whether it would be hard to
do, or would it require any major change in the design of Lout. Any
comments?

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