On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:18:00 +0000 Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> wrote:
> IMO, returning code points by index is a mistake. It over-emphasises > the importance of the code point, which helps to continue the notion > in some developers’ minds that code points are somehow “characters”. > It also leads to people unnecessarily using UCS-4 as an internal > representation, which seems to have very few advantages in practice > over UTF-16. The problem is that UTF-16 based code can very easily overlook the handling of surrogate pairs, and one very easily get confused over what string lengths mean. Richard.
