<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 03 Feb 2016, at 18:25, José Valim <<a href="mailto:jose.valim@plataformatec.com.br" class="">jose.valim@plataformatec.com.br</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I just wanted to clarify, to avoid any confusion, this patch is mostly about support for unicode atoms forms in the compiler. This is a required step if you ever want to support Unicode in the language but it does not imply such. There are three main milestones:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Support unicode atom forms (i.e. the form {atom, Line, Atom} can have a UTF-8 encoded atom)</div><div class="">2. Support unicode atoms between single quotes (for example, <span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">'ノクス', as you can already write "</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">ノクス"</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">)</span></div><div class="">3. Support unicode in the language (for example, being able to write variables in Japanese)<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This discussion was originally related to 1 but I could contribute 2 if desired. Many of the concerns raised above are related to step 3 which, afaik, is not planned.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:13px" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I wasn't clear enough, but supporting UTF8 in atom is OK, but do we actually support collation on binaries and string ? Either way, how "é" compare to "è" or "e" ? What is the rule chosen?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>- benoit</div></body></html>