Re: [colorforth] Extending the character set - Take II

[Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 March 2004 01:11 pm, Chuck Moore wrote:
> > And an expanded character set isn't desirable. I was pleased to
> > realize that 48 characters are adequate. More are not necessary just
> > because they're on qwerty. And there is no limit to the number of
> > possible characters.
>
> Indeed, remember that the character set was designed expressly for
> entering Forth source code, intended for Forth source blocks.

Are you telling Chuck the intent and purpose of his character set?
Puzzling ...

>  Perhaps a
> more desirable solution would be to use a new character encoding, with a
> new kind of editor, for editing general purpose text, e-mails, etc.

It is difficult to tell in advance, I think you really have do your
homework and try different schemes, see what the tradeoffs are, how the
code factors.

Mark


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