Re: APL Under-bar Characters

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 07:35:17AM -0700, alexweiner_at_alexweiner.com wrote:
> Hello Unicode Mailing List,
>
> There is significant discussion about the problems of adding capital letters
> with individual under-bars in this mailing list for GNU APL.
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2015-08/msg00050.html
>
> Pretty much it adds up to the following problem:
>
> The string length functionality would view an 'A' code point combined with an
> '_' code point as an item that has two elements, while something that looks
> like 'A' Should be atomic, and return a length of one.

I think what you need is better “character” counting [1], rather than
new precomposed characters.

Regards,
Khaled

1. http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries
Received on Sun Aug 16 2015 - 10:25:55 CDT