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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

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On 06-02-2011 10:42, Tom Anderson wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, Mike Schilling wrote:
>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote in
>> message news:iil0uf$niu$4@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>> In message <iiji77$4fe$1@localhost.localdomain>, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Arabic Letters also have different glyphs depending on whether they are
>>>> at the start, middle or end of a word or an isolated letter, though six
>>>> letters only have isolated and end-of-word representations. Unicode
>>>> supports this with a code point for each representation of each letter.
>>>
>>> But they are not different characters, they should not have different
>>> code
>>> points.
>>>
>>> Assigning different code points greatly complicates basic
>>> text-processing
>>> tasks like editing and searching.
>>
>> Different code point for capitals and lower-case letters is equally
>> silly.
>
> Agreed. Uppercase should be a combiner, like an accent. There could be
> composed forms of uppercase letters, but there should be a modifier too,
> so that when normalised in the right direction, searching and sorting
> are simplified.

It would make some things a lot easier. But guess the idea
is 40-50 years late.

Arne

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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-06 15:42 +0000
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