Re: compiler for Chinese development language

  "gentlezhao" <gentlezhao@126.com> wrote:


> Hi, I am a student from China.I want to design a compiler for Chinese
> development language on linux, but I don't know whether it is
> feasible. I need some suggestion.


> [I don't see why not. Unicode support is getting pretty good, and once you're
> pass the lexical stage, the source character set doesn't affect the language.
> -John]


The lexical stage can be handled in Flex, if one feeds it with a UTF-8
files, and writes out the character rule matches explicitly using a UTF-8
editor. (I have started to do this with math characters.) For character
classes, one can do a translation of Unicode character classes into Flex
regular expressions, matching UTF-8. I posted some such conversion
functions in the Flex mailing list. The same technique should be
applicable to just about any standard 8-bit byte based lexer generator.


--
    Hans Aberg

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