Notice/Warning on narrowStrings .length

[Nick Sabalausky]

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2182.1335490591.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
> Now in that, at least, it surpasses Norton Editor. :-) But had Norton
> not been bought over by Symantec, we'd have a modern, much more powerful
> version of NE today. But, oh well. Things have moved on. Vim beats the
> crap out of NE, Notepad, and just about any GUI editor out there. It
> also beats the snot out of emacs, but I don't want to start *that*
> flamewar. :-P
>

"We didn't start that flamewar,
It was always burning,
Since the world's been turning..."

>
> Here's more:
>
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/conscripts2.htm
>
> Imagine if some of the more complicated scripts there were actually used
> in a real language, and Unicode had to support it...  Like this one:
>
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/talisman.htm
>
> Or, if you *really* wanna go all-out:
>
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ssioweluwur.php
>
> (Check out the sample text near the bottom of the page and gape in
> awe at what creative minds let loose can produce... and horror at the
> prospect of Unicode being required to support it.)
>

Crazy stuff! Some of them look rather similar to Arabic or Korean's Hangul 
(sp?), at least to my untrained eye. And then others are just *really* 
interesting-looking, like:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/12480.htm
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ayeri.htm
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oxidilogi.htm

You're right though, if I were in charge of Unicode and tasked with handling 
some of those, I think I'd just say "Screw it. Unicode is now depricated. 
Use ASCII instead. Doesn't have the characters for your langauge? Tough! Fix 
your language!" :)

>
> When I get the time? Hah... I really need to get my lazy bum back to
> working on the new AA implementation first. I think that would
> contribute greater value than optimizing Unicode algorithms. :-) I was
> hoping *somebody* would be inspired by my idea and run with it...
>

Heh, yea. It is a tempting project, but my plate's overflowing too. (Now if 
only I could make the same happen to bank account...!)