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In article <TED.89Oct15122042@kythera.nmsu.edu>, ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) writes:
> Prolog's difficulty in dealing with the european character sets is
> nothing compared with the genuine antipathy with which it regards
> oriental character sets.  for instance, in Quintus, put strips the
> high bit of characters being output, and the contents of string
> literals are stripped of their high bits by the guts of read.  this
> leads to real pain in trying to write a program which has embedded
> chinese or japanese characters in it.

Yes, there were old versions of Quintus Prolog which did this,
but it hasn't been true for a long time.  What's more, Quintus
Prolog supports Kanji under VAX/VMS and VAX/Ultrix to my
certain knowledge and may (I've been away from Quintus for a
while) support Kanji on other platforms as well, certainly it
has no difficulty with the "Shift-JIS" coding, the main problem
is that the coming thing is EUUC.  But Quintus intend to support
EUUC as well as Shift-JIS.

> that is only the beginning.  why admit there is such a thing as a yen
> if you won't admit that kanji exists?

Well, I'm not speaking for Quintus, I'm just speaking for myself, and
I insisted back in 1984 that the Prolog standard should support Kanji.
Quintus does admit that Kanji exists and has supported it for years.
(You do have to buy a special version.  Send mail to sales@quintus.com.)