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From: "Tim Bray" <tbray@t...> > The 'aha' moment was the point that it's safer to use strings rather > than characters as the primitives of your API, because what to a human > may look like a single character may be a composition of several unicode > characters, which looks like a string to the program. But then aren't you are representing glyphs, not characters? > > Do you mean to say that use of UTF-16 character encoding in a programming > > language is broken as designed? In the perfect language of your own design, > > would you have the "char" type be 32 bits? Is that what this is all about? > > I'm in the middle of a series of essays on this over at 'ongoing' >Cheers, Tim Bray > (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/) Yes, the essay is not at all controversial. ;-} Bob
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