Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters
Michael Torrie
torriem at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 10:32:27 EDT 2017
On 07/14/2017 08:05 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
> 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.
Are you saying that dealing with Unicode in Google Go, which uses UTF-8
in memory, is adding an extra layer of complexity and makes things worse
than they might be in Python?
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