On 2014-05-29 07:47, Kevin Ballard wrote: > > The JavaScript version is quite wrong. Isaac points out that NFC vs NFD can > change the result, > although that's really an issue with grapheme clusters vs codepoints. More interestingly, > JavaScript's idea of string length is wrong for anything outside of the BMP: >
My point wasn't about JavaScript specifically; it's really that using such an overloaded term (length) for a very specific operation seems like a bad idea. [--snip--] > FWIW, Go uses utf-8 code units as well, and nobody seems to be confused about that. "Nobody" seems a bit hyperbolic, but I guess we'll see :). Anyway, I have no horse in this race, so I'll just leave it at that. Regards, _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
