Let's stop parser Hell

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 02-Aug-12 01:23, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Andrej Mitrovic
> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/1/12, Philippe Sigaud <philippe.sigaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I somehow thought that with UTF-8 you were limited to a part of
>>> Unicode, and to another, bigger part with UTF-16.
>>> I equated Unicode with UTF-32.
>>> This is what completely warped my vision. It's good to learn something
>>> new everyday, I guess.
>>
>> I think many people viewed Unicode this way at first. But there is a
>> metric ton of cool info out there if you want to get to know more
>> about unicode
>
> I will, but not yet. I've a few books on parsing and compilers to read
> before that.
> I just read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html,
> though, and I'm a bit disappointed that char 7 (\u007) does not make
> my computer beep. I remember now having my computer beep on char 7
> during the 80s when ASCII was the only thing that existed.
>
Once you have time to learn some unicode, check out this page:
http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/index.jsp

I've found these tools to be incredibly useful.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky