Re: [colorforth] Unused character encodings available in Colorforth

["Roman Pavlyuk \(personal\)" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a silly idea (as all of them at this time of day):

What if map English (or even a subset of human) dictionary into Unicode,
you'll get about 65000 words, and each Forth word can be expressed with 16
bit, add some service tokens, for numbers and for joining words into phrases
to get 2- and 3- and more-word identifiers.

I'm not joking. Since words are not made of characters, but encode symbols
(=entities), it'll be internationalized ipso factum.

Well, 32 bit words can be useful for colors and flavours (flavor can be an
adjective).

Does anyone see any serious drawbacks?

Thanks,
Roman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bill Parker
To: colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [colorforth] Unused character encodings available in Colorforth


--- Chuck Moore <chipchuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The 0 0000 character code indicates end-of-word.
> With characters packed into 32-bit words, zeros are
> also used as fill if 28 bits aren't used.


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