Perl6 Unicode support

Andrew Godfrey via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 11 12:25:27 PDT 2016


On Saturday, 11 June 2016 at 18:33:04 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 06/11/2016 06:47 PM, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
>> OTOH, it mentions both graphemes and grapheme clusters, 
>> without much
>> distinction. So I'm not exactly sure which is the default 
>> focus.
>
> What distinction is there to be made? As far as I understand, a 
> grapheme cluster is a sequence (or cluster) of code points that 
> together represent one grapheme.

That's the distinction, yes. The article mentions both in a way 
that makes me unsure if Perl 6 confused the terms (or maybe it's 
just the article that isn't being clear).


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