On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:59:31PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > No, a few million code points in the Unicode standard can produce an > arbitrary number of unique grapheme clusters, since you can apply as > many modifiers as you like to each different base character. If you > allow multiples, the total is unbounded. > > A small program, which ought to go into the test suite <g>, can generate > >4G distinct grapheme clusters, one at a time.
That precise behavior is what I was characterizing as a DoS attack. :) So in my head it falls into the Doctor-it-hurts-when-I-do-this category. Larry
