Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?

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• Subject: Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?
• From: Jason Trenouth <jason.trenouth@globalgraphics.com>
• Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:45:43 +0100
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:30:01 -0400 (EDT), nospam@nospam.com (Gail
Zacharias) wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:48:51 -0700, "Mark Jordan"
> <Mark_Jordan@nospam.btinternet.com> wrote:
> >I'd ask for the rules, but the complex job of writing Dylan CFFI's and
> >no unicode has put me off using Dylan at all. What I really need is
> >a CPPFFI to interface to existing C++ class libraries.  Any ideas on
> >how this might be done?
> 
> We're definitely aware that the lack of unicode is a big hole that's
> high priority to fix.  As is C++ support -- the recommended approach
> is to use COM.  It's not ideal, but direct C++ interoperability is
> really an impossible problem for any language that's not C.

Some other approaches to Dylan-C++ integration are:

	create a C interface via extern C
	and use the C FFI

	CORBA

	COM

Then of course there are shared files, shared dbs, sockets, etc.

__Jason	

• Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?
• From: "Mark Jordan" <Mark_Jordan@nospam.btinternet.com>
• Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?
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• Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?
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• Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?
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