Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters
Rhodri James
rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Fri Jul 14 10:05:37 EDT 2017
On 14/07/17 14:31, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Of course, UTF-8 in a bytes object doesn't make the situation any
> better, but does it make it any worse?
Speaking as someone who has been up to his elbows in this recently, I
would say emphatically that it does make things worse. It adds an extra
layer of complexity to all of the questions you were asking, and more.
A single codepoint is a meaningful thing, even if its meaning may be
modified by combining. A single byte may or may not be meaningful.
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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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