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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

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On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> 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.

For interchange purposes, yes. But i don't see why you couldn't write a 
string implementation that stored characters this way internally.

tom

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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-05 11:45 +1300
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 15:38 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? "javax.swing.JSnarker" <gharriman@boojum.mit.edu> - 2011-02-05 12:59 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-06 15:42 +0000
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-06 18:34 +0000
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 11:02 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 18:17 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-09 20:12 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-10 14:00 +1300
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-05 12:54 +1300
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-02-05 13:09 +0000
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-02-04 15:29 -0800

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