Why can't D store all UTF-8 code units in char type? (not really understanding explanation)

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 11:47:30PM +0000, thebluepandabear via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Friday, 2 December 2022 at 23:44:28 UTC, thebluepandabear wrote:
> > > :-D
> > > 
> > > (Exercise for the reader: what's the Hausdorff dimension of the
> > > set of strings over Unicode space? :-P)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > T
> > 
> > Your explanation was great and cleared things up... not sure about
> > the linear algebra one though ;)
> 
> Actually now when I think about it, it is quite a creative way of
> explaining things. I take back what I said.

It was a math joke. :-P  It was half-serious, though, and I think the
analogy surprisingly holds up well enough in many cases.  In any case,
silly analogies are often a good mnemonic for remembering things like
Unicode terminology. :-D


T

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