[Haskell-cafe] Re: PROPOSAL: New efficient Unicode string library.

27 Sep 2007


      On 2007-09-27, Ross Paterson  wrote:
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:26:07AM +0000, Aaron Denney wrote:
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On 2007-09-27, Ross Paterson  wrote:
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Combining characters are not an issue here, just the surrogate pairs,
because we're discussing representations of sequences of Chars (Unicode
code points).
You'll never want to combine combining characters or vice-versa?  Never
want to figure out how much screen space a sequence will take?  It _is_
an issue.
It's an issue for a higher layer, not for a compact String representation.
Yes, and no.  It's not something the lower layer should be doing, but
enabling the higher layers to do so efficiently is a concern.


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Aaron Denney
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