Mark Davis wrote: > You could conceivably restrict your dream programming language to only > 'complete' default grapheme clusters, defined as those where the > addition of previous characters would never change that boundary, but > in practice I don't think your dream language would be particularly > useful at, well, actual programming.
In practice it's impossible to restrict only to "complete" default grapheme clusters: look at Hangul, and take a "complete" syllable; you can still extend that cluster by prepending another leading consonnant (which is, by itself a complete Hangul syllable). With the restriction to "complete" DGCs, you could not write in Korean! However you could guarantee it provided that you don't only concatenate strings, but ensure that each instance does not contain defective sequences, and you add a forced space character between the two concatenated strings (this is apparently what Word does when copy/pasting words) __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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