Re: utf8 library for GP (!)

["Ruud H.G. van Tol" <rvtol@isolution.nl>]

On 2026-10-02 08:55, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2026 at 06:36:18AM +0200, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
> > On 2026-10-01 23:09, Bill Allombert wrote:

> > > I wrote a basic script to convert UTF8 strings to code word and back in GP.
> > >
> > > ? utf8("βγδζθκλµνξπρςστφχψ")
> > > %1 = [946,947,948,950,952,954,955,181,957,958,960,961,962,963,964,966,967,968]
> > > ? unutf8(%)
> > > %2 = "βγδζθκλµνξπρςστφχψ"
> > >
> > > This way we can lok up characters in ut8 strings in GP.
> > Do you aim for a specific version of the Unicode standard?
>
> This script only implements UTF-8 encoding/decoding only, not Unicode.
There are strict ("UTF-8", with the hyphen) and lax (commonly called 
"utf8") ways.

See for example https://perldoc.perl.org/Encode#UTF-8-vs.-utf8-vs.-UTF8

Does it support cp=0 in any way?

-- Ruud