kill the commas! (phobos code cleanup)

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d]

Am Sat, 6 Sep 2014 14:52:19 +0300
schrieb ketmar via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>:

> On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 11:05:13 +0000
> monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> 
> > That sounds so much better than UTF-32.
> why, in the name of hell, do you need UTF-32?! doesn't
> 0x10000000000000000 chars enough for everyone?!
> 
> > > btw: are there fonts that can display all unicode?
> > > i doubt it (ok, maybe one).
> > Fonts are encoding agnostic, your point is irrelevant.
> so where can i download font collection with fonts contains all unicode
> chars?
> 
> > This is all done without the need for font-display
> thank you, but i don't need any text i can't display (and therefore
> read). i bet you don't need to process Thai, for example -- 'cause this
> requires much more than just character encoding convention. and bytes
> are encoding-agnostic.
> 
> > which is on the burden of the final client, and their respective 
> > local needs.
> hm... text processing software developed on systems which can't display
> processing text? wow! i want two!

Dude! This is handled the same way sound fonts for Midi did
it. You can mix and match fonts to create the complete
experience. If your version of "Arial" doesn't come with
Thai symbols, you just install _any_ Asian font which includes
those and it will automatically be used in places where your
favorite font lacks symbols. Read this Wikipedia article from
2005 on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font
In practice it is a solved problem, as you can see in your
browser when you load a web site with mixed writing systems.

If all else fails, there is usually something like this in
place:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=UnicodeBMPFallbackFont
E.g. Missing symbols are replaced by a square with the
hexadecimal code point. So the missing symbol can at least be
identified correctly (and a matching font installed).

-- 
Marco
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