VLERange: a range in between BidirectionalRange and RandomAccessRange

[spir]

On 01/14/2011 02:37 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
> * I don't even know how to make a grapheme that is more than one
> code-unit, let alone more than one code-point :)  Every time I try, I
> get 'invalid utf sequence'.
>
> I feel significantly ignorant on this issue, and I'm slowly getting
> enough knowledge to join the discussion, but being a dumb American who
> only speaks English, I have a hard time grasping how this shit all works.

1. See my text at 
https://bitbucket.org/denispir/denispir-d/src/c572ccaefa33/U%20missing%20level%20of%20abstraction

2.
     writeln ("A\u0308\u0330");
<A + tilde above + umlaut below> (or the opposite)
If it does not display properly, either set your terminal to UTF* or use 
a more unicode-aware font (eg DejaVu series).

The point is not playing like that with Unicode flexibility. Rather that 
composite characters are just normal thingies in most languages of the 
world. Actually, on this point, english is a rare exception (discarding 
letters imported from foreign languages like french 'à'); to the point 
of beeing, I guess, the only western language without any diacritic.


Denis
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