RFC: Unicode Support

[Qix-]

TODO

[corbin-r]

As a question, I'm assuming when you say unicode support you mean UTF-8? As there are several UTF formats, UTF-8 being the most common.

[Qix-]

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 and UTF-64.

typedef [u8] as str8
typedef [u16] as str16
typedef [u32] as str32
typedef [u64] as str64

alias str8 as str

[corbin-r]

@Qix-
Sweet. That certainly will be nice, having full UTF8-64 support.

[Qix-]

@PolyGN yep see the updated #3 for why the typedef and alias keywords are how they are in the above comment.

[corbin-r]

@Qix- ahhh I see. So alias "renames" but without the copy of the original type, typedef copies the original type and renames. I quite like that because using alias could save bit space where needed.

[Qix-]

typedef creates a new type out of an existing type. alias just creates an alias for a type.

You can think of it like this:

typedef Foo as Bar

class Bar : private Foo {};

and

alias Foo as Bar

#define Bar Foo