On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:26:32AM -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> : You could coin the abbreviation ligs, for Language Independent
> : Graphemes. Then some ingenious rascal can create a pragma or whatever
> : that allows $str.b, $str.c, $str.g, and $str.l for fans of terseness.
>
> Except they'd have to be "ldgs". Graphemes are ligs in current parlance.
And 'ligs' implies ligatures. And since that'd require font, style, and
possibly layout information, I think we'd rather not go there right now...
Dan
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