In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Wall) wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:52:34AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>: :u0 # use bytes (. is byte)
>: :u1 # level 1 support (. is codepoint)
>: :u2 # level 1 support (. is grapheme)
>: :u3 # level 1 support (. is language dependent)
>
>These modifiers might get renamed to match whatever b/c/g/w convention
>we come up with pragmas. The levels aren't all that intuitive, though
>there is a kind of progression of semantic complexity that would get
>lost with ordinary names.
bytes
codepts
graphemes
langdepends
That's a kind of progression. And "codepts" seems a natural enough
abbreviation, though I don't really know what to do with language_
dependent_thingummies. Though with less typing, the initials b < c < g < l
give the same progression.
-David "except for encodings where c<b, of course...." Green
