14:4:this,1: ,9:netstring,,with docs note on handling true length of utf-8 strings in light-weight markup. A PEG parser ?
2) md2curl is available as name for markdown-to-Curl parser. See Java PEG parser. Q: what advantages to having Traits for parsers ?
note: true-length of presented string varies also with Unicode composing marks such as accents for presenting Russian as text in e-learning applications. Given these issues, a parser in Icon, UNICON or Object Icon seems appealing as an alternative to PROLOG. alternative: compiled Red (Rebol-like).
ironic, in a way, that we move to 64-bit while shy of UTF-16 as we get terabyte DASD and higher-speed networks: 16-bit text could have been planned as the markdown delight (we might even have been spared XML.)
I have a link to this post over at the global Curl community.
