Re: [GSoC] gccrs Unicode support

[Philip Herron <herron.philip@googlemail.com>]

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Hi Raiki

Excellent work on getting up to speed on the rust front-end. From my
perspective I am interested to see what the wider GCC community thinks
about using https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/ library within GCC
instead of rolling our own, this means it will be another dependency on GCC.

The other option is there is already code in the other front-ends to do
this so in the worst case it should be possible to extract something out of
them and possibly make this a shared piece of functionality which we can
mentor you through.

Thanks

--Phil

On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 16:19, Raiki Tamura via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My name is Raiki Tamura, an undergraduate student at Kyoto University in
> Japan and I want to work on Unicode support in gccrs this year.
> I have already written my proposal (linked below) and shared it with the
> gccrs team in Zulip.
> In the project, I am planning to use the GNU unistring library to handle
> Unicode characters and the GNU IDN library to normalize identifiers.
> According to my potential mentor, it would provide Unicode libraries for
> all frontends in GCC. If there are concerns or feedback about this, please
> tell me about it.
> Thank you.
>
> Link to my proposal:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MgsbJMF-p-ndgrX2iKeWDR5KPSWw9Z7onsHIiZ2pPKs/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Raiki Tamura
>