RE: [vhdl-200x] VHDL support for Unicode

Thank you Martin. I lobbied for this within SystemVerilog when we were creating it and was told no one cared. I tried ages ago to suggest it in the 1076.1 development - similar response.

I am very glad to see that someone now cares. I agree that Unicode strings would be of the greatest value.

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David

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From: owner-vhdl-200x@eda.org [mailto:owner-vhdl-200x@eda.org] On Behalf Of Martin.J Thompson
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 2:06 AM
To: vhdl-200x@eda.org
Subject: [vhdl-200x] VHDL support for Unicode

Hi all,

I've asked in a number of places about the use of Unicode within VHDL and the consensus seems to me to be:

* Just having support for identifiers/comments is not of great value
* Having a Unicode string type would be much more valuable, but also a huge amount of work

I've collated some quotes and posted them on the Twiki here:

http://www.eda-twiki.org/cgi-bin/view.cgi/P1076/UseOfUnicode

Cheers,
Martin

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