On 3/25/25 14:10, Leroy wrote:
> I vote to add '#read_line' to
> the parsing stage. easy! peasy!

I've been thinking about something like #utf8_readline() and 
#utf8_writeline() in my yuqk fork playpen. These would fully support 
utf8 within the constraints of the Unicode BMP (2^16 characters).

In implementation they'd completely bypass all the input/output stuff 
and character set up in the POV-Ray source today. Every time I start to 
look at moving the current source to full utf8 support, I quickly get 
overwhelmed by the totality of conversion necessary.

Anyhow, the implementation of the two utf8_* functions would be ugly to 
start... Likely, they'd initially open and close the file on every call, 
for example.

Bill P.

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