On 01/14/2011 01:52 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
Am 14.01.2011 07:26, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
"Andrei Alexandrescu"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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I'm not so sure about that. What do you base this assessment on? Denis
wrote a library that according to him does grapheme-related stuff nobody
else does. So apparently graphemes is not what people care about
(although
it might be what they should care about).
It's what they want, they just don't know it.
Graphemes are what many people *think* code points are.
Agreed. Up until spir mentioned graphemes in this newsgroup I always
thought that one Unicode code point == one character on the screen.
I guess in the majority of use cases you want to operate on user
perceived characters.
That's what makes sense for the user in 99.9% case, thus that's what
makes sense for the programmer, thus that's what makes sense for the
language/type/lib designer.
denis
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