On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 2:45 AM Claude Pache <claude.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > In fact, for my purpose, I have no reason to impose a limit for a precise > number of *code points* (as opposed to other possible definitions of “length” > such as *UTF-16 code units* or *grapheme clusters*). Technically, I am > usually limited by the size of a column in the database, for which the “size” > corresponds typically to the number of bytes in a UTF-8 encoded string. From > a user point-of-view, the number of “characters” is better approximated by > the number of grapheme clusters. None of those two notions of “length” > correspond to the number of code points.
Yup, code points, while a useful specification concept to work with, are in fact very rarely what you actually need to care about for anything in real use-cases! Bytes or grapheme clusters are almost always what you want. ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
