On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 21:01:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
If user code needs to go upper at the grapheme level, they can
If anything this thread strengthens my opinion that
autodecoding is a sweet spot. -- Andrei
Unicode FAQ disagrees (http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html):
"Q: How about using UTF-32 interfaces in my APIs?
A: Except in some environments that store text as UTF-32 in
memory, most Unicode APIs are using UTF-16. With UTF-16 APIs the
low level indexing is at the storage or code unit level, with
higher-level mechanisms for graphemes or words specifying their
boundaries in terms of the code units. This provides efficiency
at the low levels, and the required functionality at the high
levels."
