VLERange: a range in between BidirectionalRange and RandomAccessRange

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 14.01.2011 07:26, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote in message
> news:igoj6s$17r6$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> I'm not so sure about that. What do you base this assessment on? Denis
>> wrote a library that according to him does grapheme-related stuff nobody
>> else does. So apparently graphemes is not what people care about (although
>> it might be what they should care about).
>>
>
> It's what they want, they just don't know it.
>
> Graphemes are what many people *think* code points are.
>

Agreed. Up until spir mentioned graphemes in this newsgroup I always 
thought that one Unicode code point == one character on the screen.

I guess in the majority of use cases you want to operate on user 
perceived characters.