You are right: I don’t know much about asian languages. How would you go about counting consonants, vowels (and tone-marks?) in the most general way?
I think I would need to educate myself about those things. Any pointer welcome. JD > On 3 Oct 2016, at 12:52, Gerriet M. Denkmann <g...@mdenkmann.de> wrote: > > >> On 3 Oct 2016, at 16:28, Jean-Denis Muys via swift-users >> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: >> >> ASCII? Probably not. Latin? perhaps, though not obvious. For example French >> accented letters would probably have to be handled somehow. Greek or >> Cyrillic? Perhaps. Other scripts? Unlikely, but what do I know. > > Don’t be so Europe-centric. Other people have vowels too. > Thai for example. And here are Swift characters completely useless: กี้ is > one character (for Swift) but it is really one consonant + one vowel + one > tone-mark. > So you will have to use unicodeScalars. > > Have fun! > > Gerriet. > _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
