numericValue for (unicode) characters

[monarch_dodra]

On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 20:14:43 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> It's just an idea that I have exceptionally fast version for 
> Unicode just around the corner, but I wouldn't mind some 
> competition ;)

Well, I already mentioned to you how I was planning to do it: 
Just stupid binary search over ranges of numbers indexed on 0.

The "big" chunk of work, actually (IMO), is just creating the raw 
data...