Re: "A Programmer's Introduction to Unicode"

2017-03-12 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:02:28 +0100 "Janusz S. Bien" wrote: > If the basic notion has to be referred in a cumbersome way as > "extended grapheme cluster" then it is easier to talk about "Unicode > characters" despite the fact that they have a rather loose relation > to

Re: "A Programmer's Introduction to Unicode"

2017-03-12 Thread Manish Goregaokar
> This is just another confirmation that the present Unicode terminology is confusing. I find this to be a symptom of our pedagogy around "characters" in programming; most folks get taught that characters are bytes are code points, especially because many languages try to make this the case. The

Re: "A Programmer's Introduction to Unicode"

2017-03-12 Thread Janusz S. Bien
Quote/Cytat - Manish Goregaokar (Sun 12 Mar 2017 07:43:22 PM CET): This is just another confirmation that the present Unicode terminology is confusing. I find this to be a symptom of our pedagogy around "characters" in programming; most folks get taught that characters