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The parser works on raw byte sequences read from source files. If parsing succeeds the raw byte sequences are converted to proper Unicode characters in a later phase. But the parser calls the function buildAnyTree, which can fail and generate error messages containing source code fragments, which might then containing raw byte sequences. To render these error messages correctly, they need to be converted in accordance with the coding flag in the source file. This is now done for UTF-8-encoded source files, but should ideally also be done for other character encodings. (Latin-1-encoded files never suffered from this problem, since raw bytes are proper Unicode characters in this case.)
DESCRIPTION
The Grammatical Framework (=GF) is a grammar formalism based on type theory.
It consists of
* a special-purpose programming language
* a compiler of the language
* a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the
generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars:
* generation
* parsing
* translation
* type checking
* computation
* paraphrasing
* random generation
* syntax editing
GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars:
* multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages)
* semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic
properties of expressions)
* grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries)
* embeddability in programs written in other languages (C,C++,
Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
COMPILATION and INSTALLATION of source distribution:
See download/index.html for installation instructions.
(More details can be found in doc/gf-developers.html.)