On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:
One point in the design space that the swift language does, which seems intersting at least to me, is to have the notion of a character be backed by a Unicode grapheme cluster, which is a character like sequence of Unicode code points.  Would library support for this at all help this discussion or problem?

That's also Perl 6's solution. But in this case it would not help because it's still living in Unicode space and not the I/O locale that is the destination for the character.

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