Update #1 on new std.uni

Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.olsh at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 12:24:45 PST 2013


16-Jan-2013 23:35, Walter Bright пишет:
> On 1/16/2013 2:48 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> I've spent some hours to get an easy, useful and correct (as far as it
>> gets)
>> terminology throughout the module.
>
> Thank you. Looking at the Terminology section (the reference to it at
> the beginning should be a hyperlink):
>
> "Not all code points are assigned to encoded characters.":
>
>      ?? I thought that was the whole point?
>

And a lot of people really want to go this way see e.g. this:
http://www.parrot.org/content/what-nfg-why-you-want-parrot-have-it

There is a value in that but:
a) it's not portable anywhere except for in-memory usage \
b) everything input/output got to be converted possibly creating new 
entries in a global dictionary of graphemes.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky


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