On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:08:28 +0200 Mark Davis ☕️ <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Richard Wordingham < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Rather the question must be the unwieldy one of how > > many scalar values and lone surrogates it contains in total. > That may be the question in theory; in practice no programming > language is going to support APIs like that. And then exhibits such an API in Java! > // for the last, could just call: *count = (int) test.codePoints().count();* The challenge is rather one of expressing the task. Perhaps: "What is the sum of the number of scalar values and the number of lone surrogates in this Unicode 16-bit string?" Maybe even: "What is the sum of the numbers of non-surrogate codepoints, surrogate pairs and lone surrogates in this Unicode 16-bit string?" It's slightly less unwieldy in the context I actually want the expression - "Go back for a grand total of x non-surrogate codepoints, surrogate pairs or lone surrogates." Richard.
