Re: On the possibility of encoding a portable interpretable object code into Unicode

From: William_J_G Overington (wjgo_10009@btinternet.com)
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 17:46:27 CST

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    On Wednesday, 25 March 2009, John (Eljay) Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com> wrote:

    > It appears to me that the issue that William Overington
    > suggested is just
    > plainly outside the problem domain of Unicode.

    Well, it might have been previously, it might still be now, yet matters can change as time proceeds.

    > And, it also appears to me that the issue that William
    > Overington suggested
    > has already been solved.
    >
    > I can run this portable interpretable code, written in
    > Unicode, on many
    > different platforms:
    >
    > ---hello.py----------------
    > #!/usr/local/bin/python3.0
    > print("Hello world")
    > ---------------------------
    >
    > This solution uses Python 3.0, and is interpretable on any
    > platform with
    > Python 3.0 installed.

    Yet it uses the same set of Unicode code points for the software as are used for text. I am suggesting a set of code points specifically for the portable interpretable object code, perhaps in plane 12 of the Unicode code point map. I am also suggesting that each of those code points define one complete instruction of the set of instructions of the portable interpretable object code.

    William Overington

    25 March 2009



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