Quote/Cytat - Manish Goregaokar <man...@mozilla.com> (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 are bytes are code
points, especially because many languages try to make this the case.
The name "grapheme cluster" could be improved upon, but it's not the
primary source of this confusion.
I agree that it's not the primary source. However the pedagogy depends
on the terminology used.
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
real-life/user-perceived characters.
Best regards
Janusz
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Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bień - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
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