VLERange: a range in between BidirectionalRange and RandomAccessRange

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/17/11 6:44 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> We need to get some real numbers together. I'll see what I can create
> for a type, but someone else needs to supply the input :) I'm on short
> supply of unicode data, and any attempts I've made to create some result
> in failure. I have one example of one composed character in this thread
> that I can cling to, but in order to supply some real numbers, we need a
> large amount of data.

Oh, one more thing. You don't need a lot of Unicode text containing 
combining characters to write benchmarks. (You do need it for testing 
purposes.) Most text won't contain combining characters anyway, so after 
you implement graphemes, just benchmark them on regular text.

Andrei