From: Jill Ramonsky (Jill.Ramonsky@aculab.com)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 12:31:09 CST
Nor I. "Characters" are perhaps the most useless objects ever invented.
Now - a count of DEFAULT GRAPHEME CLUSTERs might be useful (for example,
for display on a console which uses fixed-width fonts). Indeed, a whole
class of DEFAULT GRAPHEME CLUSTER handling functions might come in very
handy indeed. Bytes are useful. Default grapheme clusters are useful.
But a "character"? What's the point?
But then, a default grapheme cluster might theoretically require up to
16 Unicode characters. (Maybe more, I don't know). Even bit-packed to 21
bits per character, that still gives us 336 bits. So I conclude that our
string processing functions could go a lot faster if only we'd all use
UTF-336. Er....?
Jill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Cimarosti [mailto:marco.cimarosti@essetre.it]
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:10 AM
> To: 'Doug Ewell'; Unicode Mailing List
> Cc: Theodore H. Smith
> Subject: RE: Non-ascii string processing?
>
>
> What strlen() cannot do is countîng the number of
> *characters* in a string.
> But who cares? I can imagine very few situations where someone such an
> information would be useful.
>
> _ Marco
>
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