On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:52:26PM +0200, Marco Cimarosti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 51 lines which said:
> a word like "�lite" is always counted as five characters, regardless > that it might be encoded as six Unicode "characters". I assume that everybody on this list knows that you count characters only after a proper normalization... (like many operations on Unicode texts). > 3) That is a very silly count anyway. If you want to have an idea of the > "size" of a document, lines or words are much more useful units. Tell that to the editor (editors of paper publications still talk with this unit "3 000 characters, no more, for tommorrow morning"). > OK. But the length in "characters" of a string is not "character semantics": > it's plain nonsense, IMHO. I disagree.
